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pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe

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arbor; arbour; suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers; suffix forming the final part of the name of a restaurant

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for many days; for several days

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to close up; to shut up (e.g. behind doors); to cut off (e.g. because a deadline has expired); to close off (e.g. subscription list)

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to be able to manage somehow or another

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as a child; when one was a child

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revenge

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massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter

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to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)

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savage; barbarous; barbaric; uncivilized; uncivilised

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ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)

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comparatively; relatively; unexpectedly; unusually; considering; for one's ...

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unless one ...; if one does not ...

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rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby

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izakaya; Japanese bar that also serves various dishes and snacks

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to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away

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to become decrepit; to become senile

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step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan

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done; just done; just finished

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to be at a loss; to be puzzled

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for fun; half in jest

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to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink

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that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you

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losing a battle; lost battle; battle one cannot win; battle one is doomed to lose

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accidental death; casualty

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by any chance; (should) it happen (that); by some chance

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omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

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yam

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reverse side; opposite (of the expected); purl stitch (knitting)

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to die; to decease; to perish; to pass away

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life span

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old man; old geezer

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yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?

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princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue

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to be thirsty; to feel thirsty; to thirst for; to crave

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suddenly; unexpectedly; by chance; accidentally; lightly; nimbly

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to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear

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remote countryside; boondocks; the sticks

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to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of

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to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do

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hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.)

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gravesite; tomb

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for generations; hereditary; generation after generation

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to make a living

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to die; (lit.) to become earth

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low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

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liquor store; wine shop; bottle shop; sake dealer; liquor-store owner; brewer

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lochia; post-natal vaginal discharge

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hey; say; look

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hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation

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