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to lick all over; to run one's tongue over

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beautiful woman; pretty girl

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to taste; to taste of; to have a taste

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to chastise; to punish; to discipline

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ASCII art

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to fall flat; to fall face down

3

cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation

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striking with the back of the sword

3

scoundrel; rascal; villain

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to be the worst of the worst; (lit.) to deserve to die ten thousand deaths

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bleaching; soaking; bleached cotton (esp. wrapped around the torso); doxxing; doxing; public humiliation (Edo-period punishment)

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sharp-eared; have sharp ears; picks things up fast

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somehow; for some reason; without knowing why

2

roadside trees

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ninja throwing knives; medieval farming tool for digging, prying, etc.

7

ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon

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to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up

2

quietly; soundlessly

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stealth; travelling incognito (traveling); ninjutsu; ninja; sneak theft; sneak thief; tolerance

3

strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious

2

(arch.) poor; (arch.) unskillful; (arch.) clumsy; I; me

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(arch.) demon; (arch.) man-slaying ogre; impermanence; transiency

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loyalty; devotion

3

Imperial family

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status of samurai

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(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole

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lowborn; humble; vulgar; coarse; shabby; poor-looking

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ninja

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origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry

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change of attitude (stance, position); lightness of foot; ability to dodge out of the way of an attack

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ninja sword

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to kill with a sword (knife, dagger, etc.); to slay; to put to the sword

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ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.

2

altruism

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to cut deep into; to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)

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to pierce; to shoot through; to penetrate

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poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite

2

(small) knife; short sword; small sword

1

women and children

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sword for self-defense; sword for self-defence

4

any number of people

1

to approach; to draw near

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to live through; to survive

2

sphere; circle; range; category

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discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability

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original form; base form

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splatter (film)

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retainer; subject; vassal; servant

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child born with teeth; child which does not resemble its parents; changeling; wild child; badly-behaved child

2

strong sake; firewater; rotgut

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