to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
this world; earthly world; secular society; ordinary world; everyday life; workaday world
to be smeared; to be covered
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
one's favourite party trick (favorite); one's specialty; No. 18; eighteenth; repertoire of 18 kabuki plays
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
likability; favorability; popularity
love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
abbreviation; omission; outline; gist; plan; strategy
tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); disposal (e.g. weaponry); annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling)
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
firmly (grasped); latched onto; locked onto
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to
rubber band; elastic band
to begin making a sound (ringing, singing, crying, etc.)
chime; bell (e.g. doorbell)
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
to pickle thoroughly; to pickle a large amount
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
at the same time as; while; as well as (multiple roles)
to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out
Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
community-based; local-based