jpdb beta

how; in what way; by what means

1

please; somehow or other; one way or another

1

weak; feeble

1

loser; failure; underdog; unmarried and childless older woman

1

good idea

1

to spring at; to leap upon

1

point (of a sword, etc.); pointed verbal attack

3

to check; to stop; to keep back

1

study; learning; tutorial

1

tee-hee

1

noshi; long thin strip of dried abalone in folded patterned paper, attached to a gift

1

to gather up into one's arms; to lift; to carry

1

rough (behaviour, temperament, etc.); wild; rude; violent

1

high-handed; domineering; on one's high horse

2

hierarchy

2

above; more than

1

arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration

1

to have one's knees be about to give way

1

to rampage; to run riot

1

joke; playfulness; kidding around

1

one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game

2

hero

2

affectation; pretension

1

to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond

1

funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd

1

life

1

to brace one's legs; to stand firm; to plant one's feet (firmly on the ground); to hold out; to persist; to make an effort

4

to stare back (at); to glare back

1

throat

1

incontinence

1

to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up

1

promptly; quickly

1

siren

1

very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just

2

to be entwined; to be involved

1

to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts

2

shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext

1

membrane; film

1

to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back

1

comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery

1

to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)

1

accurate; correct; precise; exact

1

remote countryside; boondocks; the sticks

2

rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown

2

person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)

1

early (days); initial stage; initial

1

accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation

1

some nerve (as in 'you must have some nerve to ...')

2

building

1

to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)

3