to make someone realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home to someone; to teach someone a lesson
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
pain; ache; soreness; damage; injury; wear
how long; how far; how much
half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate
absolutely; unconditionally; never (with neg. verb)
to shoot out (lights, window, etc.)
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
speaking of; (I told you) already; come on
softly; gently; stealthily; secretly; to leave alone; to leave as it is
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
stepping (in place); stamping (up and down); stomping; standstill; stalemate
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to shake; to sway; to waver
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
unpleasant; disagreeable; abominable; unlucky; inauspicious; ominous
battlefield; battleground
hypocentre (of an earthquake); hypocenter
to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned
to become pale; to turn pale
to run down (stairs, etc.)
to bump heads; to bump into each other; to collide head-on; to meet by chance; to encounter; to run into
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
to grumble about something (trivial)
matter of the highest priority; top priority; first priority
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
to look up at; to raise one's eyes; to look up to; to admire; to respect
brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband); older stepbrother
abuse; ill-treatment; maltreatment; mistreatment; cruelty
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant
collapse; break; cave-in; crash; (market) decline