jpdb beta

to express (in words); to confess

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the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since

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frill

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to treat; to handle; to deal with; to arrange; to decorate (with); to adorn (with)

1

top; upper garment

1

skirt

2

feminine

1

nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

1

dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail

3

collarbone; clavicle

1

line

1

to become tense; to be tightened; to become firm (e.g. body)

1

measurement round the hips

1

to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

1

foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; lower radical of a kanji; money

1

deep blue; navy blue

1

base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag

1

flower pattern

1

innocent; cherubic; childlike

1

grown-up (manner, etc.); mature; adult

2

skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

1

to wrap up

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even more; still more; one layer; lowest floor (of a building); rather; sooner

1

to shine; to glow; to look attractive; to look nice; to be set off (by)

1

to feel shy; to be bashful; to blush

1

to be wet (with tears); to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked

4

womanly; ladylike; feminine

1

to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny

1

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)

3

to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

1

bell (often globular)

1

tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre

5

to colour; to color; to apply make-up; to decorate; to garnish

3

one (thin, flat object); one sheet

1

painting; picture

1

spectacle; sight; scene

5

to breathe

1

to fascinate; to enchant; to possess; to bewitch; to enthrall

1

thought; consideration; thinking

1

stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, a licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition

2

elbow

1

clap (sound of wooden clappers); chop vigorously; slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting); the end; originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers; dot (esp. typographical)

3

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

1

to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to enter one's ears (e.g. of water)

1

only; merely; but; no more than

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pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)

2

flowery words; rhetorical flourishes

1

to cross one's mind; to spring to mind; to occur to one

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to hug (someone) tight; to embrace; to give (someone) a tight hug; to cuddle

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to hug one's knees; (fig.) to be lonely; to beg

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