jpdb beta

to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on

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end of the earth

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to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

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to feel bitter; to scowl

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a long time ago

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scorn; disdain; contempt

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circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs

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no matter for; without regard to; whatever the ...

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relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen

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miser; niggard; cheapskate

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settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)

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obstinate person; stubbornness; pigheadedness; hard head (like a rock)

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powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent

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to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue

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cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

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if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have

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a piece; a scrap; a fragment; iota; modicum; trace

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cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection

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speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

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scramble; struggle

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(bringing to a) perfect end; (rounding off with a) crowning achievement; successful conclusion; triumphant finish

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for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)

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just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

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huh?; what's up?

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surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance

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to peek; to peep

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still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet

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almost; nearly; close to

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evening; evening hour

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waking up early; getting up early; early rising

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idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish

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to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober

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bell (often a large hanging bell); chime

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brimming with health (vigor, vigour); full of vitality; full of health

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to run about; to rush about

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to take; to carry (something) away; to bear

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too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at

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still; even now; to this day

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to run around

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busily; sedulously; laboriously; feverishly; fussily; worrying (about little things)

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willpower; energy; vitality

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to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below

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care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter

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hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing

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to get; to obtain; to come by; to find

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absence; disregard; indifference

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buying and eating sweets (esp. children); between-meal snacking

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to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done

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listen!; you see; mind you; remember

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to make snide remarks; to put into bad mood

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