寿命を縮める

じゅみょうをちぢめる

to shorten one's life

首を縮める

くびをちぢめる

to duck one's head

縮める

ちぢめる

to shorten, to reduce, to boil down, to shrink

宣命を含める

せんみょうをふくめる

to make someone understand their fate, to reason with, to persuade, to deliver an imperial edict (which cannot be refused)

縮こめる

ちぢこめる

to draw in (one's body); to duck (one's head)

命を取り留める

いのちをとりとめる

to escape death; to be saved from death

命を削る

いのちをけずる

to shorten one's life (through hardship, etc.); to hasten one's death

命を張る

いのちをはる

to put one's life on the line

一命を取り留める

いちめいをとりとめる

to escape death, to be saved from death

押し縮める

おしちぢめる

to squeeze, to collapse

命を奉じる

めいをほうじる いのちをほうじる

to obey orders

命を懸ける

いのちをかける

to put one's life on the line, to risk one's life, to put everything one has into it

命を捨てる

いのちをすてる

to give one's life, to lay down one's life

命を捧げる

いのちをささげる

to give one's life (e.g. in battle), to devote one's life (e.g. to a cause)

天命を知る

てんめいをしる

to turn 50, to reach 50 years of age

縮小命令セットコンピュータ

しゅくしょうめいれいセットコンピュータ

Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)

縮る

to be wavy; to be curled; to be frizzled

命令を伝える

めいれいをつたえる

to pass on an order, to pass the word

使命を帯びる

しめいをおびる

to be charged with a mission