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- 食い止める☆【くいとめる】食止める☆・食いとめる・くい止める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem; to curb; to halt
漏えいはすぐに食いとめる必要がある。 The leak needs to be stopped immediately.
- 渋る☆【しぶる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb:
- to hesitate; to hold back; to balk; to falter
- to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to begrudge
- to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus
- 手控える☆【てびかえる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to hang (hold) back; to hold off; to refrain; to reduce or cut back on
- to jot down a note
- 目の敵にする【めのかたきにする】目の仇にする・目のかたきにする Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to hate the very sight of; to hold a grudge against; to treat like an enemy; to bear constant enmity; to be gunning for; to have it in for
- せき止める【せきとめる】堰き止める・塞き止める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to bring to a halt; to intercept
- to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)
川の水をせき止めるために堤防が建設された。 A bank was built to keep back the water of the river.
- 抱く☆【いだく・だく・うだくobs.】懐く【いだく・うだくobs.】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to embrace; to hold in the arms (e.g. a baby); to hug
- to harbour (e.g. grudge); to harbor; to bear; to have (e.g. ambition); to entertain (e.g. hope, suspicion) [いだく]
godan ~く verb:
- to have sex with; to make love to; to sleep with [だく]
- to sit on eggs [だく]
その経験で彼女は民主党に対して好感を抱くようになった。 The experience prejudiced her in favor of the Democratic Party.
野心は抱くに値するが、容易に達成され得ない。 Although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be achieved easily.
- 押さえる★【おさえる】押える Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to pin down; to hold down; to press down - also written as 圧さえる
- to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to press (a body part)
- to get a hold of; to obtain; to seize; to catch; to arrest
- to grasp (a point); to comprehend
- to quell; to subdue; to suppress; to repress; to hold back; to check; to curb; to contain ➜ 抑える【おさえる】
野茂が打者をおさえると観客がわきあがります。 It causes quite a sensation when Nomo pitches a no-hitter.
低血糖症の人は、感情を押さえる力がないので、すぐに怖がったり怒ったりする。 People suffering from low level of blood sugar disorder, because they lack the power to suppress their emotions, get easily frightened and angry.
- 捧げる☆【ささげる】献げる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to lift up; to hold up; to hold above eye level
- to give; to offer; to consecrate
- to devote; to sacrifice; to dedicate
彼らは12月24日の晩、熱心に祈りを捧げる。 They offer an earnest prayer on the evening of December 24.
- 抱きしめる【だきしめる】抱き締める☆・抱締める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to hug someone close; to hold someone tight; to embrace closely
彼らは抱きしめることで彼らの愛情を表している。 They're expressing their love by hugging.
- 取り付く【とりつく】取りつく・取付く Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to cling to; to hold on to; to hold fast to
- to grapple
- to set about doing; to begin; to commence; to undertake
- to take hold of; to possess; to haunt - of a demon, thought, emotion, etc. ➜ 取り憑く【とりつく】
- to obtain a clue; to get a lead
- 押さえつける【おさえつける】抑えつける・押えつける・押さえ付ける・押え付ける・抑え付ける Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to press down; to hold down; to pin down
- to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress
他人の意見を押さえつけることはできても、自分の発言がどんな結果に結びつくかを想像できていない。 Even if the opinions of others can be supressed, I cannot imagine to what results my speech may lead.
- つぐむ《噤む・鉗む》 Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to shut one's mouth; to hold one's tongue; to keep silent
- 催合う【もやう】 Inflection
godan ~う verb:
- to co-operate (in enterprises); to hold in common; to share - archaism
- 捧ぐ【ささぐ】 Inflection
godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:
- 取っ付く【とっつく】取っつく・取付くirr. Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to cling to; to hold on to; to hold fast to
- to set about doing; to begin; to commence; to undertake
- to take hold of; to possess; to haunt - of an illness, demon, etc.
- to approach (a person); to deal with (someone)
- 役を勤める【やくをつとめる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to act (as); to hold an office; to play the part (of)
- 蔑む☆【さげすむ】貶む Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain
多分男の唯一真実な威厳は、自分自身をさげすむことができる能力であろう。 Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
- 侮る☆【あなどる・あなずる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise
虫歯を侮ると命に係わる場合もあるのです。 Making light of cavities can be a matter of life and death.
- 逃げ切る☆【にげきる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to get away; to manage to hold on
どんなに速く走っても、自分の運命から逃げ切ることはできない。 Flee never so fast you cannot flee your fortune.
- 提げる☆【さげる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to take along; to hold in the hand
- to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist) ➜ 下げる【さげる】
- 失笑☆【しっしょう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- laughing at an inappropriate time; not being able to hold back one's laughter
- scornful laughter; snicker; snigger - colloquialism
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