to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot
to (dramatically) fall over; to fall flat
blow; hit (on the body); beating
leaving the front line; retiring from the game; deserting the battle
act of God; irresistible force; inevitability; force majeure; vis major
being about to cry; the verge of tears
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
trouble; bother; number of moves; number of punches; number of liberties
cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
picking up; gathering; type-picking; walking
(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
(overnight) stay; lodging; inn; hotel; night duty; anchorage
longish; moderately long; somewhat long; fairly long
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
punch (with the fist); punching (a hole); hole punch; punch (drink); punch (in a song, speech, etc.); impact
(family) crest; coat of arms; pattern; figure; playing card suit (in karuta)
reaction; response; physical reaction (to a stimulus); observable response (of an organism); reaction; effect
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
even though; despite; when
to get angry; to get mad; to lose one's temper; to scold; to tell (someone) off
(for) one's own use; personal use; private use
proposal; offer; request; application
attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat
one more time; once more; once again
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
consumption; expenditure; spending
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
with a bang bang (e.g. repeated sound of a hammer or gunfire); at a mad pace; with great vigor
to fire (a gun) ceaselessly; to fire away; to blaze away; to fire volley after volley
regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to enter one's ears (e.g. of water)
little while; short time; (arch.) an hour; half-hour; half an hour
physiological phenomenon; physiological response