jpdb beta

to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)

1

to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to get an electric shock; to tingle (from an electric shock); to be excited; to be titillated

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what the?; what's going on?; what's this?

1

to cry out in one's sleep (e.g. from having a nightmare); to moan (in anguish) in one's sleep

2

(it was) not until; (it was) only when

1

then; if so; if

1

to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up

1

to recover consciousness; to come to

1

throat; singing voice; gutter (inner margins of a book)

2

stinging (pain); smarting; tingling

1

sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around

1

to turn on one's heel; to turn back; to return

2

fate; destiny; lot

1

to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued

2

to shake off

1

if that's the case ...; if so ...; that being the case ...

1

one line; one streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident)

1

to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare

1

secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings

4

payment in advance; advance payment; payment on delivery (e.g. business-reply mail, collect phone calls); forerunner

2

generation of heat; (attack of) fever; pyrexia

1

to attack; to go for; to come at; to pounce on; to jump on; to swoop down on

3

to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm

3

to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline

1

doctor; physician

1

to see (a doctor, etc.); to consult (someone)

1

wealthy; rich; affluent; well-off

2

many objects (for study); encyclopedia; encyclopaedia

1

wait-and-see (situation, stance, etc.); waiting to see (how things play out); watching developments (before acting); probe; probing move

1

bamboo writing strip

6

to shave off; to scrape off

1

to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)

1

falling into a doze; dozing off; nodding off

1

to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause

1

piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild

1

Papin

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intermittent

1

easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusing; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous

2

plosive sound

1

to bring in; to take in; to approach (someone) with (a proposal, offer, problem, etc.); to bring; to bring (to another stage); to take (e.g. to court, to extra time, to a play-off)

2

to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up

1

to pierce through; to break through

1

other side; opposite side; other party

1

anything and everything; just about everything

3

apathy; lassitude; lethargy; languor

1

to speed; to tear away; to skip over (e.g. pages)

1

to yield oneself (to something); to devote oneself (to something); to surrender oneself (to something)

1

inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness

1

agreement (e.g. business, dispute); understanding; compromise; relationship; relation; (good, bad, etc.) terms

1

to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

2