jpdb beta

pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)

7

bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

7

change for the better; improvement; looking better (than before)

1

to be perturbed; to be agitated

3

to exercise one's talent; to display one's ability

2

to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to

1

to fly in the air

1

running away; escaping on foot

2

fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet

2

arrogant; insolent; disdainful

3

correct; right; correct interpretation (answer, solution)

3

empty threat; bluff; paper tiger

6

presumptuous; impertinent; impudent; ridiculous; laughable; absurd

1

earnestly; immediately; exactly

2

again

2

ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies

1

vulgar; lowbrow; coarse

1

concealment; suppression; hiding

6

damage

1

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

6

to gain time; to play for time; to buy time

2

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

2

exactly right!; indeed; damn straight

3

anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z

1

full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)

2

seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)

2

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

4

taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...

1

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend

9

defensive-only

1

unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; uncomfortable; unhappy

1

to be betrayed; to be brought to grief (by an enemy); to be given a hard time

1

creakily; close (i.e. with no room to spare)

1

to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through

2

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

2

dove; moderate; soft-liner

2

substance; real form; main part; main unit; this machine; this appliance; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)

38

one (bird)

1

frontal attack

1

yours sincerely; respectfully yours

1

having said that; on the other hand

2

being well versed (in); being well acquainted (with); being familiar (with); (a boy's) first ejaculation; spermarche; semenarche

2

it is not (like that) either

11

skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid

1

clever; shrewd; crafty; cunning; pretentious; impertinent

4

to walk about; to walk around; to conduct oneself; to turn up; to brawl (in a play, etc.)

1

disgrace; shame

1

four; four years of age; ten o'clock (old time system); Burakumin; cross grips

8

to pieces; into shreds

1

mysterious disappearance; being spirited away

1