jpdb beta

joke; jest; funny story

1

holding a sword above one's head (kendo posture); haughty attitude; overbearing manner

1

to hold aloft (e.g. a sword); to brandish

3

slash; slashing attack

3

grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops

2

spreading; disseminating; scattering; diffusion (of light, gas)

2

to pop off; to pop out; to fly off; to shoot off; to burst open

3

How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

1

use; utilization; utilisation; application

3

to cut (cloth, paper, etc.); to cut off; to sever (ties); to break off (relations); to cut off (a supply route, enemy's retreat, etc.); to block

13

exposed; scanty; bare; public; open

2

to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

5

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

1

as one had hoped; as one wishes

2

via; through; by doing; by means of; using

1

to tremble with fear

1

to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away

1

day after day; day by day

1

painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

2

thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love

2

to temper thoroughly; to train well

1

to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)

4

to be affected; to be theatrical; to be pompous

1

heartbroken; crestfallen; dejected; feeling exhausted; feeling drained

1

act; deed; conduct

2

to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes

4

scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer

1

earth; ground; the solid earth; the (vast) land

11

earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

1

plump; rotund; chubby; entirely; completely; wholly

1

we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)

4

(common) use (of a language, currency, etc.); current use; to be accepted (e.g. of a way of thinking); to work (of an excuse, trick, etc.); going in and out; entrance and exit

1

strength; power; proficiency; ability

3

to enclose; to surround; to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to keep (e.g. a mistress); to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.)

1

counter for (small) things or pieces; counter for military units; (an) individual; one person; counter for years (of age difference); counter for school-years

1

counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

1

lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger

7

to make a sound

3

protection; repellent

1

storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; pile of 3 cards of the same value in oicho-kabu

1

to blow violently

1

bamboo ware

1

to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

9

origin; beginning; source

12

weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence

1

seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading

1

two (long cylindrical things)

6

scorching; scorch; scorched rice (at the bottom of the pot); crispy rice; part of ceramic glaze that has become dark or darkish-brown during firing

2

not to mention ...; needless to say ...; not to speak of ...; (arch.) negligent; (arch.) neglectful; (arch.) careless

3

state; condition; the way things should be; ideal state; truth

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