jpdb beta

strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious

1

adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger

1

to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (at); to fling (at); to vent (e.g. one's anger); to express (one's feelings)

3

device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement

1

uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)

1

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

2

one by one; one after another; successively

1

mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)

8

two equal parts; exactly two parts

1

everything; anything; nothing

4

as if; as though

6

to be hot on a person's heels

1

(a) jump; splashes (usu. of mud); upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo); close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup; hane (move)

1

attacking in waves

1

suddenly; all of a sudden

4

to step on (a nail); to run (a nail) through one's foot; to put one's foot through (the floor)

1

flames produced by an explosion; explosive flames

1

to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up

1

(eruption of) smoke

2

postwar period; period after Second World War

1

origin; source; beginning; starting point

2

making (a report, plan, contract, etc.); drawing up; writing out; preparing; creating (a file, website, account, etc.)

1

trap

2

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

1

pseudo; quasi; artificial; simulated

1

land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap

4

art; technique; means; way; stratagem; artifice

2

affinity; compatibility; chemistry (between people)

3

concealment; hiding; covering up; suppression

1

nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty

2

plural; multiple; plural (number)

1

lower half of the body; nether parts

1

to pieces; into shreds

1

(not) even; (not) any

1

destructive blast; blowing up; explosion

1

to drink; to swallow; to smoke (tobacco); to swallow up; to engulf; to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.); to keep down

1

(with a) whizz; hiss; zip; easily; with ease

1

laser beam

1

to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on

1

here and there; various places; all around; muddled; confused; in the wrong order

2

to be sooty; to be stained

1

teeth; teeth and tusks

1

range (of a rifle, missile, etc.)

1

inside (a region, area, etc.); within the range (of); within the sphere (of influence, etc.)

1

to jump up; to leap up; to spring up

1

to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)

2

right above; just above; directly above; directly overhead

1

trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)

8

(body) weight

3

kick

1