jpdb beta

there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

1

inborn nature; genuine; intrinsic; essential

2

flexible; lithe; soft; pliable

3

insufficient study

1

loser; defeated person; the defeated

2

nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish

4

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

1

school event

3

control

8

blow; shock; strike; batting

3

rough play

2

(very) beginning; start

3

appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession

1

clean

2

as usual; as is one's habit

1

indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)

2

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

3

coward

1

one clap; one beat; one mora (taken as a unit of time)

1

a throw; a fall

1

to become vulgar; to coarsen

2

strikeout; strike out; fanning out

5

second person

1

standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing

3

two outs

2

capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); defeating (an opponent); attacking (a problem) strategically

1

beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end

2

erotic; sexy; arousing; risque; sultry

3

unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible

3

easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous

2

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

2

to knock (someone) to their feet; to knock down; to send flying; to strike; to drive away (one's sorrows, worries, etc.); to dispel

5

cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end

1

fanned on three pitches

4

G; g; gram; (acceleration due to) gravity; giga-; gravitational constant; gauss

1

to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain

2

temple (side of head)

4

pitching

4

technical term

1

(pitcher's) stuff

3

delineation; demarcation; drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable); (measuring) ruler

1

windup

2

external angle; exterior angle; outside corner

8

to lower; to be lowered

14

dead center

1

open stance

1

charges; billing; paying for items in online games

2

catch; catching; catch; shop tout; puller-in; catching (in swimming and boating); catching the water

1

hitting (a ball with a bat, racket, golf club, etc.); batting; batted ball; struck ball

6

pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari

2