jpdb beta

looking slender in clothing

2

questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)

2

to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)

4

to intervene; to stop (something)

4

to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued

2

to look displeased; to frown; to scowl; to look grave; to look serious

4

to answer a question

6

sulky look; sullen look

2

to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out

4

laying one's head in someone's lap; using someone's lap for a pillow

2

distant look; faraway look

4

to love one another

2

two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; cut from the same cloth

2

snow; snowfall

25

to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat

6

(in) his way; peculiar to him

4

to rack one's brains

2

for crying out loud!; for chrissakes!; denotes shock at ignorance

2

rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor

2

rapid succession (e.g. questions)

2

heart; mind

2

wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else

4

carbonic acid; carbonated water; baking soda; sodium carbonate

2

bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive

2

locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors

4

careful; elaborate; scrupulous

2

bedroom

5

drowning one's cares in drink; drinking in desperation

2

to be helpful; to be dependable; to stand by (someone)

21

(a) glance; (a) look

4

virgin; maiden

10

losing one's virginity; defloration

2

with religious zeal; with utmost devotion; take great care of

2

losing easily; being trounced; being beaten hands down

2

to be wet; to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked

9

to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself

15

to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to fulfill (conditions); to meet (requirements)

10

to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)

2

(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability

2

to begin (doing); to start (doing)

3

to refer to; to use as reference

2

to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

2

lively; vigorous; energetic; full of (energy, appetite, curiosity, etc.); brimming with

2

to blow upon; to breathe on; to pick (a fight); to force (unreasonable terms); to exaggerate; to overcharge

4

to tease; to irritate; to tantalize; to keep (someone) in suspense

3

inexperienced; unfamiliar (with); unversed; lacking experience

2

to pulsate; to throb

4

spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering

4

just above; right overhead

2

pink (colour, color); (lit.) colour of peach (flowers)

2