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to raise overhead

2

right arm; right-hand man; right hand; right-handed pitcher

1

dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail

1

to realize; to realise; to hit upon something

1

you (plural)

1

to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)

1

to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

2

to strike; to hit; to beat; to punch

5

so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why

1

to be overawed; to be overpowered; to lose the mental battle

1

nape of the neck

1

to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise

1

to waste time; to kill time

1

in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing

1

to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)

3

to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone

3

to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash

1

to glare at; to scowl at

2

to spit

1

house; building

1

prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante

3

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

2

to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)

1

consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement

1

one's own judgement (judgment); decision made without consulting others; arbitrary decision; dogmatism

1

dogmatic; arbitrary

1

strict; severe; stern; rigid; rigorous; tough

1

one's cherished opinion; pet theory

1

young man; young woman; young people; young employee; young manservant; young follower

1

to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one's patience

1

trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon

2

to arrive (at one's destination); to reach; to come to a head; to reach a conclusion; to culminate (in)

1

central part; heart (of a city)

2

counter for places, parts, passages, etc.

1

command; direction

2

corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)

1

reply; answer; response

1

to resolve; to ready (oneself); to make up one's mind

1

in hand; on hand; on one; handheld

1

to shine on; to illuminate; to compare (with); to refer to

2

in every nook and corner; from A to Z; from head to toe; from cover to cover

1

amount of light; quantity of light

1

incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness

1

to make a sound

2

faint smile

1

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

2

to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain

1

to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from

1

poor health; ill health; unhealthy

1

extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd

1