My words

済ます

to finish, to get it over with, to conclude to settle, to pay back to get along (without something), to make do with (without)

省く

to omit, to leave out, to exclude, to eliminate to curtail, to save, to cut down, to economize, to economise

負う

to bear to carry on ones back to take responsibility for to accept a duty to be injured to owe

抑える

suppress

込める

to load (a gun, etc.), to charge to put into (e.g. emotion, effort) to include (e.g. tax in a sales price) to hang over, to shroud, to enshroud, to envelop, to screen

補う

to compensate for to supplement

生かす

to make (the best) use of to leverage (skills attributes experience etc) to capitalise on (experience etc) to let live to keep alive to revive to resuscitate

改める

to change to alter to revise to replace to reform to correct to mend to improve to examine to check to inspect to do properly to do formally

区切る

to demarcate, to delimit, to divide (an area), to mark off, to cut off to punctuate, to put an end to (e.g. a sentence), to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)

寄せる

to come near, to let someone approach to bring near, to bring together, to collect, to gather to deliver (opinion, news, etc.), to send (e.g. a letter), to contribute, to donate to let someone drop by to add (numbers) to have feelings for (love, good will, trust, etc.) to rely upon for a time, to depend on to use as a pretext to put aside to press, to push, to force

添える

to garnish, to accompany (as a card does a gift) to add to as support, to prop up to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.) to mimic, to imitate to draw something near to oneself, to approach nearby

狭める

to narrow, to reduce, to contract

擦る

to rub, to chafe, to strike (match), to file, to frost (glass) to lose (e.g. a match), to forfeit, to squander ones money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)

捩る

to screw, to twist to distort, to parody, to make a pun to torture, to wrest

塞ぐ

to stop up, to close up, to block (up), to plug up, to shut up, to cover (ears, eyes, etc.), to close (eyes, mouth) to stand in the way, to obstruct to occupy, to fill up, to take up to perform ones role, to do ones duty to feel depressed, to mope

生やす

to grow to cultivate to wear a beard

積む

to pile up to stack to load (car ship etc) to pack to acquire to accumulate

組み合わせる

to join together, to combine, to join up

退ける

to put something out of the way, to move (something, someone) aside to remove, to exclude, to take away to set aside, to keep apart to remove (someone) from the group, to shun to do well despite difficulties, to accomplish despite adversity to do resolutely, to do boldly

解く

to untie to unfasten to unwrap to undo to unbind to unpack to unsew to unstitch to solve to work out to answer to dispel (misunderstanding etc) to clear up to remove (suspicion) to appease to dissolve (a contract) to cancel to remove (a prohibition) to lift (a ban) to raise (a siege) to release (from duty) to relieve to dismiss to comb (out) to card to untangle (hair) solve

削る

to shave (wood or leather), to sharpen, to plane, to whittle, to pare, to scrape off to shave off (e.g. a budget, expenses, a salary, etc.), to curtail, to cut down to cross out, to reduce, to curtail, to remove, to erase, to delete

崩す

to destroy, to demolish, to pull down, to tear down, to level to disturb, to put into disorder, to throw off balance, to make shaky to relax (ones pose), to make oneself at ease to break (a bill), to change, to make change to write in cursive style, to write in running style to break into a smile, to let off a smile to lower (a price)

縫う

to sew, to stitch to weave ones way (e.g. through a crowd)

染める

to dye, to colour, to color

裂く

to tear, to rip up to cut up, to cleave, to cut open (esp. the abdomen) to forcibly separate (i.e. two lovers) to spare (time, money, etc.), to use part of something to have a tattoo in the corner of ones eye

縛る

to tie, to bind

捲る

to turn up, to roll up (e.g. sleeves) verb suffix to indicate reckless abandon to the activity to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.), to come from behind

畳む

to fold (clothes) to close (a shop) to vacate

剥がす

to tear off, to peel off, to rip off, to strip off, to skin, to flay, to disrobe, to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect

千切る

to tear to pieces, to tear to shreds, to tear up to pick (e.g. fruit), to pluck, to tear off to do... heavily, to do... heartily, to do... vigorously