to take someone's life; to kill someone
single horseman; wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
farewell; adieu; goodbye; so long
to look up (at); to look up to; to respect; to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to depend on
delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
subterranean rumbling; earth tremor
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
support; backing; aid; assistance
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
subordinate; secondary; junior; incidental
back side; back end; posterior; rear
to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to get an electric shock; to tingle (from an electric shock); to be excited; to be titillated
supple; flexible; elastic; graceful; elegant; refined
economical; efficient; lean; compact
hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn
to jar; to creak; to grate
metal fittings; metal fixtures
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
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
to throw out; to drop; to toss; to abandon; to neglect; to dismiss
heel (of foot, shoe, stocking, etc.)
iron plate; steel plane; sure thing; certain winner
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable); forward puller (of a rickshaw)
to have one's attention attracted (caught); to be preoccupied with
arrest; apprehension; capture
shrill voice; piercing cry; shriek; scream
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
to spoil; to rot; to corrode
manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost
entrails; giblets; tripe; offal
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to cram; to stuff; to jam; to squeeze; to compress; to pack
fast-talking; rapid talking
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
surrounding at a distance