jpdb beta

to harden; to solidify; to become firm; to become certain; to gather (together); to assemble

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clay

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make; manufacture; -made; made of ...; made in ...

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doll; puppet; marionette; puppet (person under the control of another); straw man; yes-man

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tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard

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surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality

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to flap (wings); to spread one's wings; to go out into the world

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laws of nature; physical laws; physics

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law; rule

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to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start

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to ride upon the winds

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theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse

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convulsion; cramp; spasm; tic; twitch; fit

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to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...

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in a sense; in some way; to an extent

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very; greatly; extremely; exceedingly; highly; quite

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suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

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-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of

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(sense of) sight; eyesight; vision

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weird; eerie; ominous; creepy; uncanny; unearthly

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contradiction; inconsistency

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power game

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blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end

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failure (i.e. an unsuccessful work); flop; dud; bomb

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shout; cry; outcry; yell; shriek; scream

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strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious

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to roar; to thunder; to become well known; to become famous; to pound (of one's heart); to throb

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(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely

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speed; velocity; pace; velocity

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considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal

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existing (between); interposition; intervention; involvement

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preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding

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after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after

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(breaking) with a snap (of a thread, string, etc.); (ending) suddenly (of a call, communications, etc.); piercing (e.g. with a needle); squashing (something small; e.g. an insect); breaking out (e.g. of a pimple)

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to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause

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correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications

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isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation

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that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that

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accompanying (someone); going with; travelling together; the same bank; the said bank

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to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)

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to blow (on); to breathe (on); to pick (a fight); to provoke; to exaggerate; to ask (an unreasonable price)

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sphere; globe; orb; ball

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to pass by; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it; to go too far

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to jump down; to leap down; to jump off; to leap off

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to attack and scatter; to argue vehemently

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thanks; gratitude; appreciation; thankfulness

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separate; respective; different

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direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means

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to try; to attempt; to have a go (at)

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to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)

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