jpdb beta

shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext; excuse; grounds (for)

1

tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room; dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)

1

seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post

1

bulldozer

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cylinder

1

to be dizzy; to be disoriented; to be dazzled; to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)

3

to finish dyeing

1

end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap

3

alert status; emergency alert

1

not the time for; not the place for; far from; far more than; nowhere near just; well beyond

1

real bullet; live ammunition; live round; money (for bribery); cash

1

wonder; miracle; amazement; prodigy

1

concentration (on a task); focusing one's attention; concentration (of population, buildings, power, etc.); centralization; within a collection of works

1

to need; to demand; to take; to require

1

one second

1

to be full; to wax (e.g. moon); to rise (e.g. tide); to mature; to expire

1

consequently; as a result; in the end

1

in spite of; despite; although; regardless of; irrespective of

1

having at one's mercy; trifling with; toying with; playing with; making a fool of; leading around by the nose

1

platform; home; home base; home plate

1

limited express train

1

to put back up; to stand back up; to restore (to former strength); to revive (e.g. the economy); to make again (a plan, policy, etc.); to reformulate

1

crossing; intersection; (genetic) crossing over

1

to try; to attempt; to have a go (at)

4

power; might; authority; influence

1

(large) gun; cannon; artillery; long-ball hitter; home-run hitter

1

to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray

2

to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.); to imbue with; to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. of a voice)

1

struggling; pawing (e.g. horses' hooves)

1

sacrifice; victim (esp. someone killed); casualty; sacrifice (to a deity)

1

to break (into pieces); to smash; to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to simplify; to make easy to understand

1

heart; guts; nerve; heart (of something); central part

2

bursting; rupture; explosion; breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off

1

compensation; reparation; price (of achieving a goal); cost; paying compensation on someone's behalf; compensation

2

gallery; corridor; art gallery; upper gallery (in a theatre); spectators (esp. at a golf tournament)

4

lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life

1

to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

1

dislocation

1

covered in blood; bloodstained; bloody; gory

1

dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy

1

(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat

1

world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

1

exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal

1

looking or acting as if one owned the place

1

striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; throwing one's weight around; acting as if one owns the place

1

to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid

1

victory; triumph; win; conquest; success

1

you could say; you might say; verging on the

1

to keep standing

2

side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time

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