jpdb beta

devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding

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appeal (e.g. of an advertisement)

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late; slowly

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method; process; manner; way; means; technique

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certainly; surely; definitely

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

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to make known

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murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post

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from now; from the present moment; from this time forward; henceforth

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seriously; in earnest; for real; all out; really; with a will

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to look on enviously while doing nothing; (lit.) to hold a finger in one's mouth

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to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded

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to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience

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to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

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to move back; to draw back; to lessen; to subside; to resign; to retire

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style; way; shape; form; appearance; state

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to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge

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self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness

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training (esp. in-service); induction course

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wherein; therein; thereinto

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to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet

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hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently

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to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)

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to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve

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precisely because

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nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail); claw; plectrum; pick; hook; clasp

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to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest; to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished

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to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol

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to (make something) quiver; to shake; to tremble; to vibrate

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to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show

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endlessly; ceaselessly

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to stay (at); to stop (at)

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mishearing

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to get over; to forget

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conquest; subjugation; overcoming

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learning by watching others; learning by imitation

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tool; implement; means; furniture

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goods; articles

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scrap wood; waste wood; waste; waste material; scrap material

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old cloth; rag

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pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously

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to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around

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flag; banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)

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sheet; bed sheet

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to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame

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hastily made; improvised preparation

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distress; wretched condition

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ghastliness; dreadfulness; grimness; intimidation; menace; threat

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curious onlookers; rubbernecks

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very interesting; of great interest

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