jpdb beta

to push back; to press back; to force back; to (refuse and) return (something); to give back

2

to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back

3

to twist someone's arm and throw them to the ground; to hold (someone) down by twisting their arm; to wrestle (someone) to the floor; to force (someone) to yield (e.g. an argument); to make (someone) surrender

2

blood vessel; vein

1

excavation; digging

1

to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress

1

lickety-split; quickly

1

appeal; call for something; request; axiom

2

vagrancy; wandering; nomadism

1

in the ground; in the earth; underground; subterranean

4

prayer; supplication

2

slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

implication; hidden meaning; latitude; atmosphere; tone; sentiment

1

to be enigmatic; to be puzzling; to be wrapped in mystery

1

darkish; dusky; dark; murky

2

piece of meat; cut of meat

2

work; workmanship; craftsmanship; artifice; trick; device

1

to burrow through; to dig through

1

even more; still more; further

3

digging out; excavation

1

huge; gigantic; enormous

1

to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till

4

to hear a rumor; to get wind of

1

to crawl out of; to creep out of

4

rough-and-ready; knocked-up; hasty; slipshod; slapdash

1

skilfulness; skillfulness; cleverness

1

body

1

luminous moss

3

paint; coating; varnish

2

application (of ointment, etc.); coating

1

sleepwalker; somnambulist

2

fresco; mural; wall painting

11

direct

1

Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit; Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ)

2

guardian

1

historian

1

establishment; settlement

1

gaining total control (of people or counties); suppression; oppression; control; mastery; ascendancy

2

just this side of; one step short of; on the brink

2

opposition; resistance; insubordination; defiance; hostility; rebellion

1

real courage

7

circulation; dissemination

1

roughneck

1

fighting alone

1

complacency about peace; naive belief in continued peace; ignorance of global conflict

1

abstention; nonintervention; noninterference

1

older sister; elder sister

4

scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle

1

to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts); to turn the potential disaster to one's advantage

1

cheating (on one's husband); adultery; male lover (of a married woman); paramour

1