he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

(formal) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

a spiteful tongue; malicious language

私: I; first person pronoun

私たち: us; we

bathing

dead, dried leaf

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

涸れる: to dry up / 枯れる: of a plant: to wither; to wilt; to die / 枯れる, 嗄れる: of one's voice: to become husky; to become hoarse