jpdb beta

siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement

2

blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space

1

positioning; getting a position; taking a position

3

adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing

1

severe attack; hard blow

1

to be at a loss how to continue an offensive; to be frustrated by impregnable defences

1

threat; intimidation; menace

3

groan; moan; growl; roar; hum (of a machine, power lines, etc.); drone (e.g. of an engine)

1

glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off

1

even (e.g. even a child)

6

to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to get an electric shock; to tingle (from an electric shock); to be excited; to be titillated

2

bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless

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to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by

9

to kick into the air; to kick up; to kick from below

1

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

2

the grass; grassy place (esp. with long dense grass)

2

advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful

1

to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate

1

ramming attack; hurling oneself (at); throwing oneself into (e.g. a role); going all out

1

breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; exceeding; passing

2

to drag around; to pull about; to lead around (by the nose)

1

reinforcement (e.g. of troops)

1

trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing

1

to crumble away; to collapse

1

to push down; to knock down

1

to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back

4

foolish; stupid; silly

1

to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

3

like; similar to; something like ...; someone like ...

5

to be buried; to be covered; to overflow; to be crowded; to be repaid (e.g. debt); to be replenished

1

to eat untidily; to eat messily; to eat a bit of everything; to leave things half-eaten; to dabble in (something); to try one's hand at (various things)

1

many; a lot of; a great number of; numerous

1

to go under; to pass under; to dive (into or under the water); to evade; to get around; to survive

1

to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)

9

to sit; to squat; to be implicated

1

to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment

2

to kick (out at)

1

to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)

10

to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)

1

right side; right-hand side

3

enclosure; box; siege

1

isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine

1

to grow weak; to become weak; to lose strength

1

with a slip; with a slide

1

to slide; to glide; to slip; to skid; to be slippery; to fail (an examination); to lose (a position)

3

directly opposite; right in front

1

exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

7

to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

2

to fall (on); to rain down; to shower down; to befall; to happen (to)

1

head; hair (on one's head); mind; brains; leader; chief; top

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