jpdb beta

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

1

to be torn off; to come off

3

exquisite flavor (flavour); delectable flavor; delicious flavor; delicacy; delectable dish

1

blasphemy; profanity; sacrilege; desecration; defilement

1

to say no more; to sink into silence

4

to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely

2

forgetting; lapse of memory

1

tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability

1

to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable

5

sweets; sweet food

1

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

3

all of a sudden; unexpected; abrupt; sudden

3

to graze (e.g. bullet); to scratch; to touch lightly; to take a percentage; to exploit; to squeeze

2

grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence

2

to grieve over; to mourn; to lament

1

to shun; to avoid; to ostracize; to neglect; to distance oneself from; to give the hard shoulder

1

to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent

1

reason; logic; sense; natural way of things

1

to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death

3

to be injured; to sustain a wound

1

to be exhausted; to be tired out; to be worn out

3

small amount; jot; nothing much; (to a) slight degree; wee bit

9

(a place) out of one's reach

1

to spill; to drop; to grumble (about); to complain (of); to let (one's feelings) show

3

(verbal) tit for tat

1

to cut at; to slash at

1

to keep within limits (e.g. spending); to restrain (e.g. emotions); to control; to hold back (e.g. an enemy); to check; to curb

15

to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell; to be filled with (emotion, energy, etc.); to be bursting with; to be brimming with

1

to glare at; to scowl at

1

to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind

3

to stare back (at); to glare back

1

to mediate; to intervene

1

to soothe; to calm; to pacify

1

to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed; to get close (e.g. to someone emotionally); to become intimate (with)

4

cannot be undone; can't be recovered from

5

to take an attitude; to take a stance; to commit oneself; to assume a position

2

to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

3

heating a vessel without water in it; heating an empty pan, kettle, boiler, bathtub, etc.

1

house built on sand; house of cards

1

to crumble away; to collapse

2

slightest connection; slender connection; sliver (e.g. of hope); one thread

1

to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)

3

(moment of) departure; (upon) leaving; retirement

2

grim; stern; stark; heartless

2

moral support; emotional support; spiritual support

1

falling into straitened circumstances; downfall; ruin

2

to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink

5

generation; lifetime; age

2

to build; to construct; to put up; to build up (a fortune, reputation, enterprise, etc.); to establish (a relationship, system, etc.); to create

2

to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be sprained; to be snapped; to be broken

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