jpdb beta

to attack; to go for; to come at; to pounce on; to jump on; to swoop down on

3

to catch one's attention

1

there being no use in arguing (about it); not up for discussion

3

to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue

1

police box; koban; alternation; alternating (current, stress, etc.)

1

sending; forwarding

1

dangerous

2

as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate

11

sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

4

molester; groper; masher; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot

1

suspicion; charge

1

... all over again (repeating the same failure)

1

presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch

5

to be broken; to break; to break (down); to stop working; to fall through (of a plan, deal, etc.); to collapse

3

robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead

1

only; merely; just; at most; no more than

1

Siberia; cake made with layers of sweet bean paste and sponge cake

1

mammoth (esp. the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius); gigantic; huge; enormous

1

to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely

1

to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

3

persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

2

to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)

2

state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances

11

grabbing hold; eagle grip; tight hold

4

flagrante delicto; caught red-handed

1

setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4) on which a bean scattering ceremony is held; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)

1

blister; corn

2

to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (flyers, etc.); to give out; to shake off (a pursuer, companion, etc.); to give the slip

1

snapping back (at someone) despite being in the wrong; getting mad back

1

ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); seeker; Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

3

look (esp. an angry or upset look); expression

1

to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel

7

to hang over; to cover; to fall upon someone (responsibility, burden, pressure, etc.)

5

to pin down; to knock down; to push (and hold) someone down (esp. with sexual connotations)

2

to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce

1

passions; sexual desire; lust

1

mouth; lips; shape of the mouth; near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance

3

twitching

1

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

2

to be mistaken; to be incorrect; to make a mistake (in); to do incorrectly; to mistake (one thing with another); to confuse

7

(this) small amount; (such a) paltry amount; only this much; slightest bit

5

else; in addition; besides

7

way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression

1

(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement

2

fundamental; basic

3

despair; hopelessness

1

to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)

2

swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion); relaxedly

1

heat shimmer; heat haze; shimmering of hot air

1

thirst for blood; bloodlust; determination to kill

1