die cutting; cutting with a cutter; shaping with a mold; cookie cutter
addition and deletion; taking out and putting in; plugging and unplugging; making do; getting by; managing
old maid (card game); living without one's mother-in-law
outlining (e.g. font); hollowing out; getting rid of the middleman; dealing directly; skinning the cat (gymnastics)
unpadded kimono; 1st day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar
boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; taking the backbone out of; weakening
removal of astringent taste (e.g. by cooking)
removing a partition (wall); straight through without interruption
taking a breather; relaxation; vent hole
omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; intentional negligence; tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)
naked sword; drawn sword; shellfish removed from the shell
letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc.
hiring from another company; recruitment; quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume); drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)
seriously; no kidding; joking aside; in all seriousness
clipping (of newspaper article, etc.); cutting; scrap (for a scrapbook); cut-out (picture, coloured paper, etc.)
degassing; gas drainage; gas venting; letting off steam; letting out stress; letting out feelings
iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards; iai sword-drawing performance (used during the Edo period to sell medicine and other wares)
overarm stroke (type of traditional Japanese swimming style)
tournament; knockout competition
principal; main; important; fashionable
pulling something out (in a stroke); plucking out; forcibly removing one after another (e.g. demonstrators); overtaking multiple people (in a spurt); pulling ahead
going concern; stocks and all; goods and furniture included
desalinating with water; salt removal
draining (esp. pipes from water for the winter); drainhole; drain; drainage
(sushi) without wasabi; wasabi-free
'ra'-removed; the practice of dropping the 'ra' in potential forms like 'taberareru'
tax excluded; excluding tax
ear clearing; clearing the ears; equalizing pressure in the ears with external pressure
maneuver to draw a sword from its scabbard and cut immediately
nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis)
exposure; disclosure; exposé; revelation
geisha, prostitute, etc. absconding without repaying indenture loans; (arch.) escape from a difficult situation; (arch.) stealthy footsteps
without compliments (greetings)
cutter (e.g. cookie cutter); punching die
stairwell; atrium; streamer; pennant
decolorization; decolourization; decolorisation; decolourisation
sequential sampling inspection (with reposition)
removing the astringent taste (from persimmons)
counterattack while evading the opponent's attack (kendo)
tempura soba without the noodles; missing the vital element
pulling out by the roots; pulling up roots and all; native born; true born
gutting (esp. a fish); gutted fish
hard-boiled egg; starchy water (from boiled rice)
draft (in casting); amount of taper for molded or cast parts