to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
swing and a miss; (punching and) failing to make contact; (ending in) failure; fruitless effort
chief; main; principal; important
to let go of; to release; to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go
all one's strength; desperate effort; (lit.) strength one has when ready to die
inside the breast of one's clothing (esp. kimono); bosom; space between one's chest and outstretched arms; (one's) reach; heart (e.g. of a mountain); bosom (e.g. of nature)
to say goodbye; to bid farewell
to tower extremely high; to pierce the sky; to overflow (with energy); to run high (of spirits, momentum, etc.); to surge (of a feeling)
lying on one's back; lying face upward; lying supine
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
overflow; abundance; exuberance
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation; severance (e.g. of relations); rupture; breaking off
dimension; perspective; point of reference; level (of something)
because; for; the reason why is ...
row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
stopping functioning; being out of service
continuation; continuance; going on; resuming
face; looks; countenance; vestige; trace; reminder
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of
we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual
texture; grain; one's skin (lacking makeup, etc.); natural skin; surface of the earth; bare ground
best; extra-fine; superfine; exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far
sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
completely; thoroughly; decisively; unsparingly; beyond recognition; until there's no untouched (undamaged) part
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
to leave it as is; to leave it at that; to let it be; to stop with something
to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate
actor; actress; man of wits; clever person; cunning fellow
suited figure; person in a suit
being a poor loser; unwillingness to admit defeat; sour grapes
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
blithering idiot; bloody fool; total moron; dimwit
mechanization; mechanisation
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
meaning; connotation; denotation
fox cub; little fox; small fox; juvenile fox
(another's) daughter; young lady