to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict
to knock (someone) down; to floor; to beat up; to deal a devastating blow (from which one cannot recover); to devastate (emotionally); to crush
existence; being; life; survival
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
perception; sensing; noticing
just now; at this moment; at this point of time
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
to accept; to receive; to agree
self-awareness; awareness (of one's position, abilities, duty, etc.); perceiving (something); taking in (a sensation); self-consciousness
occasion; time; circumstances; (in) case (of); when
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
to drag into; to pull into; to lure inside; to win over; to entice into
to kneel (in respect); to genuflect
to have one's heart stop beating; to be shocked; to be staggered
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
intonation; accent; modulation; inflection
to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment
shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word
mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing
supplementary prize; additional prize; auxiliary prize; bonus prize
to come untied; to come apart; to be softened; to be relaxed
desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application
crystal; crystallization; crystallisation; fruits (of labor, union, etc.)
fruition; fructification; bearing fruit; bearing fruit (of efforts, plans, etc.); coming to fruition; yielding success
rather than; more ... than ...
essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic
nothing but; none other than
to flash (e.g. lightning); to flicker; to flutter (e.g. flag); to wave; to flash into one's mind (e.g. an idea); to come to one suddenly
to wake (someone) up (by calling for them); to awaken; to call (to mind); to bring back (memories); to evoke
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
one's eyes; (pair of) eyes
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
to check; to stop; to keep back
to wash away; to sweep away; to carry away