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to maintain one's honor as a man; to save face (as a man); to have one's honor upheld

2

to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

5

lamentable; deplorable; regrettable; sad; wretched

1

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

3

gathering spot; haunt; rendezvous; meeting place; hang-out

1

health care professional; medical worker

1

windward; upwind

1

violence; mayhem

1

Catholic priest; abbe; reverend father; minister; padre

36

memory; sense; experience

3

already; previously; before; undeniably; unmistakably

9

attitude; manner; behaviour; attitude (towards an issue, etc.); position; stance

7

one's predestined length of life; destiny; fate

1

to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip

4

fear; horror; risk; danger; awe; reverence

1

play; sport; fun; caprice; joke; jest

1

questions and answers; dialogue

1

slowly; unhurriedly; easily (e.g. in time); well; well (e.g. sleep); comfortably

9

close adhesion; sticking firmly (to); relating closely (to); having relevance (to); contact printing

2

to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound

1

left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)

5

softly; gently; stealthily; secretly; to leave alone; to leave as it is

3

to draw (someone) close to one's breast; to pull close to one; to take into one's arms; to embrace

1

to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)

3

too (much); overly; excessively

4

tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable

1

hostility; animosity; enmity

4

stamp (in Chinese martial arts); stomp

4

to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn

2

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

5

to break (into pieces); to smash; to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to simplify; to make easy to understand

3

to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below

1

earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

2

reaction; recoil; kick; backlash

4

without delay; promptly; immediately; forthwith

1

upper body

2

to spread (of a rumour, news, etc.); to travel; to be handed down (from generation to generation); to be passed down; to be introduced (to a country, region, etc.); to be brought; to be conveyed (of a feeling, impression, etc.)

1

through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

1

to save; to leave over; to spare

1

to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands); to throw into (e.g. jail); to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into

4

astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock

3

to open (one's eyes) wide

2

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

2

you (plural)

4

to compete with; to argue with; to quarrel

1

to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to

2

difficult to ...; hard to ...

2

to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray

3

bullet (from a rifle)

3

prime; conspicuous

1