jpdb beta

big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important

1

to crush; to squash; to flatten; to quash (a plan, opposition, etc.); to crush; to suppress

1

chief; main; principal; important

5

head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest

2

on one occasion; once; at one point; at one time

1

to show up; to appear; to turn up

1

burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case

1

obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit

1

clothes (that one is wearing); wearing clothes

2

trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation

2

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

1

thought

2

to strike (someone) down; to knock down; to thrash; to place firmly

1

waterfowl; water bird; shorebird

1

to wring the neck; to strangle

2

exaggeration

1

nth year in the Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25)

1

whale (Cetacea spp.)

1

small fish; fry

2

dust; small debris (e.g. dirt, crumbs); trash; garbage; negligible amount; tiny bit

1

to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last

1

to limp; to drag one's feet

1

stepwise; one step at a time

1

(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture

2

to stagger; to stumble

1

thunderstruck; hit by a thunderbolt; struck by lightning

1

unusual; serious; incomparable

1

transcendence; transcendency

2

careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering

1

going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another

1

to occur repeatedly; to repeat; to be repeated; to be frequent

1

to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)

1

good night

1

some; several; many; how many; how much; very

2

pride of place; most prominent; top-ranking

2

to abate; to weaken; to be emaciated; to be dejected; to be perplexed

3

to take great pains; to make every effort; to rack one's brains; to be concerned; to worry

1

(theatrical) blackout; taking a (sudden) turn for the worse; rapid deterioration

2

weak person; the weak

2

rule; established routine; standard operating procedure; SOP

2

leaving one's objective incomplete; leaving one's ambition unfulfilled; being unable to achieve one's goal

1

happy ending

1

to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil; to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to ferment; to melt (of metal)

2

seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up

12

(in) secrecy; behind closed doors

2

to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out

1

being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)

1

to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out

1

very much; very many; more and more

3

ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather

2