jpdb beta

returning home

2

(pet) owner; keeper

2

with a tap; with a knock; smoothly (proceed); without a hitch; even; equal

1

to become entangled; to become complicated; to get mixed up; to screw up; to get caught up in

1

to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor

1

to take over; to hand over

1

spool (of thread); reel; bobbin; tuning peg

2

to get entangled; to get tangled; to have poor control over (one's tongue, feet, etc.); to trip over; to become complicated

2

lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification

6

to resign; to abandon; to step aside; to back out of; to retire; to get away

1

scramble (for)

1

to hand over; to transfer; to give up (e.g. one's seat); to give way; to yield; to concede

1

deadlock; stalemate

1

to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)

1

sudden drop; sharp fall; nosedive; swoop

1

castle gate

1

in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

1

gun barrel

3

root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

1

to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest

2

to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

2

overwhelming

2

crushing; squashing; crumpling; crinkling (into a broad smile); forming creases; forming wrinkles

1

to lose balance

2

up and down, left and right; top and bottom, left and right

1

corpse; remains

28

matryoshka; Russian nesting doll

1

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

1

to judge; to decide; to sit in judgement; to try

1

retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion

1

to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

2

calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable

1

(with a) thump; (hanging) straight down

1

(warning) flare (esp. used on roads and railways)

1

apathy; indifference; listlessness; athymia

1

to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin

1

without leaving any trace

1

group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school

7

to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)

2

to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum

2

both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

1

to burst open; to split open; to be bursting with (e.g. youth, laughter, flavor); to bounce; to bound

2

personal history

1

to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)

1

physical

4

time-stamp; time-stamping machine

1

to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age

1

to droop (e.g. ears of grain); to bow one's head; to hang one's head

1

looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia

1

coward

1