jpdb beta

war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces

21

mixed (e.g. team, chorus)

3

series of battles; successive battles

4

to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

4

exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

2

(words to) that effect

1

bad reputation; disgrace; unpopularity

3

to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)

12

when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days

8

each; respectively

2

to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall

1

yearned for; longed for; missed

1

world; society; people; the public

2

information; experience; knowledge; observation

1

family; members of a family

3

half

3

compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement

2

to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home

1

western part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)

1

fierce battle; hard-fought battle; hot contest; severe fight

1

expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

3

to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove

3

consideration; concern; attention; thoughtfulness; making arrangements; care

3

to consider others' feelings; to sympathize with somebody's feelings

2

hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack

1

(one's parents') home

1

mother; wife

1

minimum; at the very least

2

why?; what for?; how?; by what means?

1

waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

1

thunder

4

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

5

cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection

2

rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)

6

to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)

8

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

4

to be disappointed; to be dejected; to be downhearted; to feel exhausted; to feel drained

1

ode in reply

5

a long time ago; in those days

1

way of reciting; way of telling a story

1

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

1

song; singing

2

source (e.g. quotation); authority

1

intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia

1

stationary point

2

Mara; demon king who attempted to hinder Gautama Buddha from attaining enlightenment; obstacle to enlightenment; penis

2

darling (woman); dear; one's sister; friend

1

art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance

1

never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up

1

thunderstorm

2