jpdb beta

choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy

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to lead a stingy life; to scrimp and save; to pinch pennies; (lit.) to light one's (finger)nails (instead of a candle)

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dizzying (speed, changes, etc.); rapid; drastic; bewildering; hectic; bustling (e.g. world)

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to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home

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to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)

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to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair

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new; fresh; new item (e.g. customer, regulation); newly created object; new customer

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to account for; to make up; to occupy (a place, position, etc.); to hold (a rank, seat, etc.); to occupy (one's mind, heart, etc.); to weigh (on one's mind)

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subject; theme; motif

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to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

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possession; having (on one's person); carrying (with one)

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tablet; pill; tablet; tablet computer; tablet; (inscribed) slab

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pride (in one's achievements, possessions, etc.); self-praise; boast

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here and there; in places

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corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text

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perusal; one reading; reading through (once)

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lack of understanding; lack of sympathy

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to stay (at); to stop (at)

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to put out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to reach (for); to try one's hand at (something new)

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to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath

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hearty send-off

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romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance

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sense of reality

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being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter

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to stare back at; to look back at

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clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain

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he; she; that person; (arch.) you

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

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to crack; to be cracked; to develop a crack

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to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

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complete change; about-face

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the last moment; the very end

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email; mail; post; message (in an instant messaging application); instant message; male

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article; news story; report; account

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to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake

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one end; an end; part; fragment

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to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work

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coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency

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to overhear; to hear (secondhand); to hear on the grapevine; to know by hearsay

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fragmentary

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wishes of a deceased person; dying wish

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certainly; surely

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to smile (at); to grin (at)

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evil spirit (that possesses someone); demon; devil

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among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)

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luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant

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to settle down (and deal with something); to concentrate all one's energy (on something); to settle oneself (in a place); to settle down (somewhere); to take a solid stance; to lower one's center of gravity (centre)

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low voice; whisper

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dreamer

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precisely because

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