jpdb beta

to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit

1

feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely

2

to exert (influence); to exercise; to cause (e.g. damage); to do (e.g. harm); to bring about (e.g. benefits); to extend

3

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

5

being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands

3

discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment

2

prominent; eminent; leading; foremost; distinguished

1

specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit

1

solution; solution strategy

1

to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

1

swing and a miss; (punching and) failing to make contact; (ending in) failure; fruitless effort

4

that is not supposed to ...; that ought not to ...; that should never ...; that cannot possibly ...

1

practical question; practical problem; practical matter

1

incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling

3

beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end

3

to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled

1

(a) few; some; several

3

variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.

5

the other day; previously; last time; last (Sunday, summer, etc.); previous (e.g. mayor, chapter)

1

to be the case that

4

to have a talk; to tell a story

4

one part; one portion; one section; one copy (of a book); (one) complete set (of books)

1

or; otherwise

3

special characteristic; special quality; trait; idiosyncrasy; peculiarity

2

human body

1

living thing; organism; creature; biology

3

in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth

1

insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness

1

fish

1

continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence

3

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

1

feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction

3

practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)

3

action; operation; process; agency; effect; function

2

to topple over; to be overturned; to capsize; to be overruled; to be reversed; to be discredited

1

it cannot be that ...; it is highly unlikely that ...; it is impossible that ...

1

to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out

1

offender; criminal; culprit

9

to be able to do; to be capable of doing

2

to succeed (in doing); to manage to do; to accomplish; to carry off; to pull off

2

moreover; in addition

1

to let someone hold; to make someone grasp; to bribe; to slip money to; to pass off; to foist on

1

pose; pose; posturing; pause; rest

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.)

4

age; years

2

(distinction of) sex; gender

1

in spite of; despite; although; nonetheless; nevertheless; but

2

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

2

elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student

1

indiscrimination; without discrimination; indiscriminate

2