to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
shackles; fetters; irons; bonds (e.g. family); ties; binding relationship
dexterity (esp. as an attribute in RPGs)
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)
choosing between two things; two choices
tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; demon; devil
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
to fall below (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to be less than; to be lower than; to fall just short of; to be just under
to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)
grotesque; bizarre; weird; grotesque (style)
scene; sight; scenario; setting
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
in name only; titular; nominal
simple substance (e.g. chemical); something standing alone; separate item; solo item
retention; maintenance; preservation
first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence); initials (of one's name)
without; but if; otherwise; or else
monopole; singular pole; unipole
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
precise; exact; detailed; accurate; minute; close
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
to have an idea; to have a clue
historical materials; historical records; historical sources; archives
to distinguish in writing; to use different writing styles; to draw (identifiably)
notebook computer; laptop
screen; curtain; raster; room divider; partition wall
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background