jpdb beta

small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow

2

draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish

2

if I (we, etc.) could

1

(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking

1

to substitute for; to stand in for; to fill in for

1

before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares

1

obedient; submissive; tame; slavish

1

implicit agreement; tacit understanding

1

to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other

5

to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely

2

thus; in this way

1

way; method; means

4

to take command; to give direction

4

electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking

2

prediction; estimation

1

to hurry (up); to press; to urge on

2

drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other

3

getting deeply involved; going deeply into; going too far (into something)

1

painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

3

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

1

(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much

2

danger zone

1

to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of

1

meaning; significance; sense

4

pursuer

2

handicap

1

to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set

1

paradise; Eden; Elysium

1

way (of doing); manner; method; means

1

best; extra-fine; exceptionally; extraordinarily; jumping and slashing (e.g. at an enemy)

1

phosphorescence

3

heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion

4

each and every; all

1

lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff

1

difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error

1

phantom; vision; illusion

3

by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means

2

to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate

7

it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but

1

dirty-looking; filthy; disgusting; squalid

2

fool; idiot; simpleton

1

meat (for consumption)

2

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

2

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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null

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thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)

1

unpleasant; uncomfortable; creepy; spooky

2

about here; in this neighborhood

1

den; haunt; hangout; nest; lair

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history

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