jpdb beta

huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!

3

nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious

1

desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager

1

enough about ...

1

to hide oneself

1

innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty

2

exposed; scanty; bare; public; open

1

hostage

1

to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)

3

shrewd; astute; cunning; alert

1

escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing

2

assistance; backing; support; aiding and abetting (a crime); abetment

1

to accuse someone; to charge someone

1

to besmirch; to sully

1

to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)

2

you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!

2

trembling (with fear, anger, etc.); shivering (with cold); shaking; quivering

1

to shake one's head

4

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

3

surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard

1

powerlessness; helplessness; incompetence; ineffectiveness

1

does not; can not; will not

1

to be in one's debt

1

(around the) neck; nape; collar (at the front of a coat, kimono, etc.); collar area

3

to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread

1

any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand

1

large army

1

trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)

1

to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)

3

secondary; of secondary importance

3

to meet face-to-face

1

to come out; to appear; to turn up; to go out for a while

1

to break the silence; to break one's silence

1

dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye); indigo (dye); indigo (colour)

1

middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly

2

shriek; scream

3

appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence

1

seizure; confiscation

2

sunset

1

(horse-drawn) cart; wagon; dray

4

to put (into); to put away (in); to include (in an anthology, catalogue, etc.); to contain; to achieve (results, success, etc.); to obtain; to accept (a gift or money)

2

to tie up; to tie together; to hang (oneself); to summarize; to put (it all) together; to estimate; to expect

1

reinforcement (e.g. of troops)

1

patrolling; one's rounds; inspection tour; watchman; patrolman

1

battle formation; camp; encampment; group; gang; war

2

to come out all right; to take care of itself; to go crazy; to become romantically or sexually involved (with someone)

1

luggage; baggage; burden; payload (of a packet, cell, etc.)

1

to take a breather; to take a rest; to catch one's breath; to take a breath

2

to take action; to start; to get started; to begin to do

1

as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); because ...; for good reason; there is a (good) reason that ...

2