agile; nimble; casual (clothing); light (e.g. luggage); carefree; with limited responsibility
equal (in ability); even; evenly matched; well-matched; on par (with)
way; method; means; resource; course
to step back; to walk backwards
setting (someone) to work; employment; using; causative (verb, etc.)
hard to see; indistinct; obscure; painful to look at
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
shooting from the hip; starting something without sufficient preparation; acting on a vague estimate (of the situation)
to put one's strength into
check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base
look!; there!; here!; that is
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
gravel; ballast; pebbles; child; rugrat; ankle-biter
sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them; poking someone's eyes during a fight to blind them
exaggerated; overblown; pretentious
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
side (of the torso); flank; illegitimate child; child born by someone other than one's wife
to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces
to work without sleep or rest
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes
to shake; to jolt; to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch)
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
to well up (of tears, anger, joy, etc.); to surge up (within oneself); to rise; to feel nauseated; to feel sick
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged
done; just done; just finished
to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up
exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen); scolding or threatening with a shout
useless resistance; vain struggle
to give; to do (something) for
to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss
to have no chance (of succeeding)
to slip through; to make one's way through quickly
virtually empty; quite empty; inadequately defended; defenseless; defenceless
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)