to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
to let go of; to release; to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go
by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)
for lack of anything better to do
pending question; unresolved problem
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)
space; room; unused land; room (for reconsideration, doubt, etc.); leeway; margin
to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other
seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
unexpressed; unspoken; implied; implicit
to look happy; to look pleased; to make eyes (at someone); to ogle
decoration; ornament; trimmings
to dismantle; to demount; to take something away; to detach
nodding (in agreement, with approval, etc.); repeatedly nodding and dozing off; suddenly (dying); deep (flavor, flavour, color, colour, etc.); rich
curiosity; inquisitiveness
to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to conceal (e.g. one's grief with a smile); to hide; to shift (the conversation)
war; fighting; fierce competition
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
group; bunch; crowd; group
collision; crash; impact; clash; skirmish; conflict
to subsist; to keep on living
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
to try all possible means
several hundred; hundreds (of)
father; father (e.g. of a discipline); pioneer (e.g. of field of research); God; Father
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
to be lifted; to be raised; to happen suddenly; to occur; to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class
migration; move; emigration; immigration
idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk
total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; total defeat; complete failure
to put into effect; to put into practice
completion; perfection; accomplishment
subject (of a medical experiment, etc.); test subject; trial subject; examinee (of a full-body scan, etc.)
recruitment; invitation; raising (funds, donations, etc.); collection; flotation (of shares, loans, etc.)