jpdb beta

severe; fierce; stern

5

to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.); to throw down the gauntlet; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to attempt; to pressure (someone) for sex; to make advances to

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declaration; proclamation; announcement

2

little by little; bit by bit

1

implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization

2

reality; actuality; hard fact

2

fabrication; pipe dream

2

account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream

1

persons who have fallen in battle

1

cemetery; graveyard

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nowhere

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to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address

3

it may be because

4

right and wrong

1

as expected; as predicted

1

to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on

2

to go to see; to visit

1

willingly; voluntarily; of one's own accord

1

to lie; to pretend; to feign; to deceive; to trick

1

fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

2

bubble on surface of liquid; ephemeral; transient

1

asking oneself

1

to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die

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wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war

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how long?; till when?

1

there is nothing; having nothing

2

doubt; suspicion; misgivings; scruples

1

bird; bard (esp. as a character class in role-playing games)

1

catastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)

1

unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short

2

heavy equipment

5

transport truck; transport vehicle

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on the way; en route; in the process of (development, construction, etc.); in the middle of

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middle of the night; dead of night; midnight

1

diversionary tactics

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beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully

1

to start to move; to get going; to come alive

3

secret; clandestine; covert; spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.); secret agent

1

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

2

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

1

to push; to propel; to shove; to spur (someone); to stimulate; to impel

1

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

2

to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen

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soldier; combatant; warrior

1

alarm bell; fire bell; warning; wake-up call

2

the entire force (of soldiers)

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stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, a licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition

5

consists of; comprises; is made up of

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rank (of troops); file; column; formation

4

several (objects, usu. from two to six)

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