expression / ~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to treat someone with contempt; to look down on someone; to treat someone disparagingly; to downplay

expression / ~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to scoff

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pour oil on (something); to anoint with oil ➜ 火に油を注ぐ【ひにあぶらをそそぐ】
• to turn up; to add fuel (e.g. to a dispute); to rev up; to encourage

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to throw; to fling; to hurl; to toss
• to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone; to give up on; to leave undone; to leave unfinished ➜ 放っておく

adverb:

• that is to say; that is; in other words; I mean; that (this, it) means
• in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it; basically

noun:

• clogging; obstruction; stuffing; (degree of) blockage
• shrinkage
• end; conclusion ➜ とどのつまり
• dead end; corner - archaism
• distress; being at the end of one's rope - archaism

adjectival noun / noun:

• unreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable
• impossible

adjectival noun / noun / ~する noun:

• forcible; forced; compulsory - often as 無理に

adjectival noun:

• excessive (work, etc.); immoderate

~する noun:

• to work too hard; to try too hard

interjection:

• no way; not a chance; never; dream on - colloquialism

~の noun:

• irrational - Mathematics term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to slip on (slippers, sandals, etc.)
• to hit (e.g. one's leg) against; to bash into
• to push (one's opponent) down before he stands up - Sumo term

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

noun:

• yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer
• grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow) - obsolete term
• failing to win a single hand during a half-game - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• being postponed; being shelved; being put on hold - idiom
• putting in storage; thing put in storage - lit. meaning

adverb:

• by (from) choice; by (for) preference; of one's own accord; of one's (own) free will; on purpose; deliberately; intentionally ➜ 好む

noun:

• one-on-one fight; one-to-one fight - slang

noun:

• one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life - four character idiom

conjunction:

• even if that isn't the case; even though that isn't the case

noun / ~する noun:

• reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

noun:

• Tang-era Chinese music
• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance ➜ 雅楽・林邑楽

noun / ~する noun:

• bringing up a matter; discussion; debate; submission (e.g. a measure); referral (e.g. bill to a committee); placing (e.g. item on an agenda)

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to differ (from); to vary
• to not be in the usual condition
• to not match the correct (answer, etc.)
• to be different from promised ➜ 話が違う

expression:

• isn't it?; wasn't it? - at sentence-end; oft. as 〜のと違うか - Kansai dialect

noun:

• cold-suffering bird; kankucho; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes - Buddhism term
• (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori - idiom - derogatory term - Buddhism term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to find fault; to harp on; to reprove
• to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pay for another; to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him; to make temporary payment on a person's behalf

expression / ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

noun:

• opposite side; bottom; other side; side hidden from view; undersurface; reverse side Antonym: 表【おもて】
• rear; back; behind
• lining; inside
• in the shadows; behind the scenes; offstage; behind one's back
• more (to something than meets the eye); hidden side (e.g. of one's personality); unknown circumstances; different side
• proof ➜ 裏付け
• opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.); contrary ➜ 裏をかく
• inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.)
• bottom (of an inning); last half (of an inning) - Baseball term Antonym: 表【おもて】