jpdb beta

patent; one's specialty (party piece, etc.)

1

pace; step; cadence

1

step; pace; stride

1

to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)

2

to rekindle one's love; to fall in love again (with a person one has previously been in love with)

1

correction; rectification; mending; repair

1

whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself

2

to that degree; to that extent; that much

1

to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

3

Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa); yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata); Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus); printing block; catalpa bow; catalpa medium

2

want to ... do something; would like to ...

2

orpiment; gamboge; falsification; alteration

2

to put on airs; to act big; to throw one's weight about; to be overbearing; to be domineering; to be bossy

2

ancient Rome

2

clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it

4

taste (of prepared dish)

2

mayonnaise

4

luckily

2

promising without due consideration

2

to haunt to death; to possess and kill

3

weakness; debility; breakdown; prostration

2

be (that) as it may; having said that

2

curse; divine punishment; wrath (of an angry spirit)

2

guardian spirit

4

punctuation; pause; juncture; end; (place to) stop

4

(social) position; status

2

to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away

2

to go up the stairs

4

having children; attempting to conceive

4

rice bowl; tea cup; teacup

8

it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...

2

the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; whether or not

2

uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently

2

to hell with; be damned

2

to become thin; to fade; to grow pale

2

six nines (i.e. 99.9999%); sixty-nine (sexual position); soixante-neuf; 69

4

physique; physical standard; posture; sexual position

2

to be satisfied (with an explanation, apology, etc.); to be happy

2

to bite off

4

gloss; luster; mellowness (of a voice); youthfulness (e.g. of skin); interest; appeal

2

not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it

2

having said that; on the other hand

2

last (on the list); (at the) bottom; (in) last position; tailender

2

to hold fast deep in (one's mouth or other orifice, often used in a sexual context); to bring in a man for sex

2

painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

4

surrender; submission; capitulation; being defeated (e.g. by a problem); giving up; giving in

2

to overflow from something full

4

to stop; to quit; to put an end to

2

to pin down; to immobilize; to immobilise; to control; to suppress

4