war potential; military strength; fighting power; ability (to compete); capabilities; valuable asset
reduction; decrease; subtraction; (arch.) reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryo codes)
to steal a kiss; to snatch a kiss
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
going backward; turning back; backtracking; retrogression; relapse; returning to a bad state
creation; generation; formation; derivation
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
man; male; masculine gender
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
normalcy; normality; normal
nature; property; disposition
to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned
explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
to hold in one's mouth (without biting, before chewing or swallowing, etc.)
to give by tossing or throwing
air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
difficult to ...; hard to ...
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
impossible; unlikely; improbable
cause; factor; hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya)
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
mixing; blending; adding; adulteration
evaporation; disappearance (of people intentionally concealing their whereabouts); unexplained disappearance
dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
originally; by nature; from the start
what would (you) do?; what to do about it