jpdb beta

to stop in the middle of a sentence

2

now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns

3

to make an incessant onslaught; to attack incessantly

21

old boy; alumnus; graduate; out of bounds

3

stickiness; viscosity; glutinosity

2

steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive

7

large burn; large scald

2

high temperature

2

atomizing; spraying

1

to be encouraged by initial success; to get a taste for; to yearn for more

1

vomit; vomitus; vomited matter

1

paint

5

disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful

7

to swallow one's tears; to choke back one's tears; to hold back one's disappointment; to suppress one's mortification

3

fervour; fervor; vigour; vigor; ardour; ardor

1

producer's price; PP; polypropylene; PP

1

discharge; evacuation; emission (e.g. of CO2); ejection; excretion

4

principal; capital; seed money

1

loan

1

to get together all the money necessary (to pay off a debt)

1

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building

2

excavation; exhumation; digging up; discovery (of a new fact, talent, etc.); finding; unearthing

2

usofuki; kyogen mask with bulging eyes and pursed lips (as if whistling)

29

extra-long sword

3

the ten fingers

2

greatness; enormity; superiority; maha

9

first place (in a race); first to arrive; one suit (of clothes); one item (of clothing); putting on (formal clothes); wearing

2

giant bird; huge bird

34

military uniform

4

mixed (e.g. team, chorus)

3

road approaching a shrine

1

haste; hurry; urgency; in a hurry; quickly; with haste

6

organization; organisation; forming

7

(major) mark; level; barrier; 100-yen unit (stock market)

1

to start (e.g. a scene, a war, etc.)

1

employer

3

greedy; avaricious; covetous; raga (desire)

6

mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary

1

daredevil; foolhardy warrior; hotspur

4

to depart (for military service); to go (into battle)

12

to share

10

bonus; reward; prize

1

to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it

3

to change completely; to change suddenly

3

where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes

18

packhorse; workhorse; hack

2

swift horse

1

resentment; grudge; pent-up anger; frustration; bitterness

3

to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother

2

to etch into one's mind; to remember well

1