jpdb beta

to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)

2

mochi; (sticky) rice cake

1

sensible; clever; smart; decent; tasteful

1

no; that's wrong; it's not like that; isn't it?; wasn't it?

3

expresses incredulousness, disbelief, irony, etc.

2

being able to hear something (clearly); clearness of a sound; reputation; renown; impression (that something gives off); respectability

1

remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

2

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

1

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

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

3

to get angry; to become perverse

1

what sort; what kind

2

old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly

2

to say; to speak; to tell; to talk

4

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing

2

destructive blast; blowing up; explosion

1

assent; consent

5

defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)

1

to possess; to haunt

6

limousine (stretched car); shuttle bus (usu. to airport)

1

in very small pieces

1

to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear

1

to part from; to part company with; to split with; to break off relations with

1

such; like that; in that way

1

act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery

1

emphasis-adding particle

2

now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again

1

doing one's duty

1

nonchalant; unconcerned; in a casual manner

3

treacherous; dangerous; untrustworthy; sneaky; cunning

1

(sound of) laughter; laughing voice

1

to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

1

(animal) collar; necklace; choker

1

around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing

5

to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)

3

row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally

1

they

2

kernel; core; nucleus; center; centre

1

use; utilization; utilisation; application

4

to rub; to chafe; to wear out; to become worn; to lose one's innocence; to become sly

1

but; however

1

to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

1

full portrait; whole aspect; full story

1

meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous

2

agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance

1

proper noun

1

that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there

1

careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

4

as you want; as you will

2

to give; to present; to offer; to do for someone's sake

1