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やみ
まるで
きて
こきゅう
呼吸
うごめ
いている
ように
かん
じられた

It felt as though the darkness was a living, breathing, writhing thing.
Source: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド村上 春樹
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
2
Most common form: ヤミ
1. darkness; the dark; dark
2. bewilderment; despair; hopelessness
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3 0
1. quite; entirely; completely; at all  (often written with kana only)
2. as if; as though; just like  (often written with kana only)
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2
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to live; to exist
2. to make a living; to subsist
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0
1. breathing; respiration
noun
2. knack; trick; secret (of doing something)
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0
Most common form: うごめく
'ku' godan verb, intransitive verb
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm  (often written with kana only)
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expression
1. in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as)  (often written with kana only)
2. hoping or wishing for something  (often written with kana only)
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0
to feel; to sense; to experience
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Kanji
やみ darkness   
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モン   かど gate   
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オン   イン   sound   おと    ね    
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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
リツ   リュウ   た to stand   たてる to build   
セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   う to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   お to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
コ   よ to call   
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コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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オ   コ    question mark   
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
hook
キュウ   す to suck, inhale   
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キュウ   およ to amount to, reach   およぼす to exert   およ and, as well as   
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three
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ジン   ニン   ひと person   
うごめく to wriggle, to squirm   
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シュン   はる spring   
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three men
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サン   み    みっ three   
チュウ   むし insect   
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dot   
チュウ   ジュウ   なか middle   
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stick   
カン    feelings   
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all, together, same   
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number 5, 5th   
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tasseled spear
シン   こころ heart   
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