jpdb beta

to snap; to break (under pressure)

1

full moon

7

deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet

3

under one's eyes; below one's eyes

1

fire engine; fire truck

2

hook-and-ladder truck; ladder truck

1

husband

4

hot wind

1

to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on

6

to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal (e.g. to the public); to urge; to exhort

2

favour; favor

3

eyeball; special feature; centerpiece; special program; loss leader; sunny-side up fried egg

6

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

5

sense of reality

1

to turn; to rotate; to go around; to circle; to make the rounds (of); to go around (several places); to go by way of

2

head over heels; headlong; head first

1

to thrust down; to push off

1

wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect

8

but; however; although; though

2

to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with

1

to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape; to make good one's escape

5

bold; shameless; cheeky; brash; impudent

1

to commit a crime; to commit a sin

2

(hospital) nurse; registered nurse; RN

3

doctor; physician

2

to exploit a gap (in attention, security, etc.); to catch off guard

5

self-conceit; pride

2

departed spirit; soul of the dead; ghost; apparition

8

swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion); relaxedly

1

copier paper; photocopying paper

1

(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies

1

to burst open; to pop; to split

2

to protrude; to stick out; to be forced out; to be pushed out; to go over (e.g. a budget); to go beyond

2

compound fracture; complex fracture

2

no problem; it doesn't matter

1

to soften; to moderate; to relieve

2

ankle

3

piece of junk; worn-out article; clumsy; useless; dismantled car; hitting (with fist)

1

soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost

3

to bear fruit; to ripen; to produce (good) results; to show results; to bear fruit

1

reaction; recoil; kick; backlash

3

(in the same way) as before; as always

2

misrecognition; mistaking (x for y)

2

being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); responding to kindness with resentment; thinking ill of someone who meant to be kind; unjustified resentment; unreasonable grudge

1

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

2

emergency staircase; fire escape

4

helical; spiral-shaped

1

answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising

1

sacrifice; victim (esp. someone killed); casualty; sacrifice (to a deity)

6

to be sacrificed; to become a victim (of); to fall victim (to); to lose one's life

3