to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)
to die; to draw one's last breath; to breathe one's last
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
nausea; sickness in the stomach
to hold (an event); to give (a dinner, party, etc.); to feel (sensation, emotion, call of nature, etc.); to show signs of
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
to disappear; to vanish; to bolt; to go into hiding
to be found; to be discovered
practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
to get strong; to gain strength
to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end
to be lifted; to be raised; to happen suddenly; to occur; to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery
natural extinction; dying a natural death; coming to a natural end
mediator; manager; caretaker
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
one's share; one's portion
duty; obligation; responsibility
sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
to raise one's voice; to shout; to yell; to speak up (e.g. in protest); to speak one's mind
clothes for a newborn baby; baby clothes