measure; step; dealing with; medical treatment
to fire from a job; to dismiss; to discharge; to behead
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
recuperation; medical treatment
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
to disappear; to vanish into thin air
bodily; with all one's weight; with one's whole body
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
protuberance; projection; prominence; bump; boss; process
according to; by (means of); due to; because of
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation
descent; fall; drop; passing down (of an order, decree, etc.)
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
middle; midway; middle position; moderate position; interim; intermediary
reaching; attaining; arrival
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
expansion; extension; elongation; stretching
ramification; branching off
to repeat; to do something over again
quickly, suddenly (while one is watching); before one's eyes
thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp
to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
racing (of an engine); spinning one's wheels; running idle; fruitless effort; going nowhere; going round in circles
phantom; vision; illusion
such ... as; or some such
in succession; one by one
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
to be awash with; to teem with; to be full of
come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see
to ascertain; to check; to make sure
to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up
crowded; packed; crammed; cramped; filled; overflowing
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
both hands; both arms; ten
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to draw or pull something towards oneself (e.g. chair)
fierce animal; beast of prey; big game
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
to perform some process; to apply some treatment; to revise; to correct
to surround; to crowd around