jpdb beta

reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction

1

to worry (about); to fuss (over); to be careful (about); to pay attention (to); to take (good) care of

1

nerve; nerves; sensitivity

1

continuation; persisting; lasting; sustaining; enduring

1

four-digit number; thousands column

1

five-digit number; "ten thousands" column

2

continuation; succession; series; continuous

2

(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking

1

ancient times; distant past; antiquity

1

letter (of an alphabet); character; writing

1

prohibition; inhibition; ban

2

language

1

pattern; design

3

contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist

2

crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.); sparking; sputtering; to fight; to argue

2

electric current

1

to form; to shape; to make; to mold; to mould; to build up

2

to be smeared; to be covered

2

counter for colours; color; colour; (outward) appearance; look; (facial) expression; face

1

bitter tears; (lit.) tears of blood

1

to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely

4

mother of a holy person; Holy Mother; Virgin Mary; Our Lady

1

to take someone's life; to kill someone

1

one-eyed; first (in a series); initial

1

giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)

1

summons; subpoena; citation; summoning (a spirit, demon, etc.); evocation; invocation

1

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

2

bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit

2

silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow

11

law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale

1

to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)

1

ruin; destruction; fall

3

daybreak; dawn; gray of the morning (grey); dawn (of a new age)

2

rule by military force; military rule; (way of the) conqueror; path of supremacy

1

to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)

1

pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth

2

emperor

2

heresy; evil ways; sorcery; black magic; netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam

1

culmination; acme; height; peak; ultimate; perfection

1

fast-talking; rapid talking

1

pole; climax; extreme; extremity

1

both arms

1

phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing

10

secret technique; secret art

1

that well-known ...; the one and only ...; that; those; the

2

god of death; death deity; Death; Grim Reaper

1

technique; art; skill; move

5

closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.); coming close to; pressing hard; pressing hard (e.g. with a question); taking to task; grilling

1

final; eventual; ultimate

1

to shoot dead; to kill (with a shot)

1