jpdb beta

senior; older

1

standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

1

old man; old geezer

1

relative; relation

1

to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve

2

content of a letter

2

input; (data) entry

1

hiding one's embarrassment

1

hill road

8

roadside; wayside

1

vending machine

1

private house

1

stone wall

2

down; below; downward

1

gallant; brave; imposing; awe-inspiring; severe; biting

1

old-fashioned; archaic; antique; antiquated

1

mysterious; mystical

1

otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense

1

setting sun; decline (e.g. of industry)

5

to blaze up; to burn up

1

(with a) start; fright; alarm

2

acquaintance

1

to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle

1

glamorous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant

1

urgent report; urgent message

1

completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)

1

in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw

1

next day

1

urgency; emergency

1

being irresistible; being furiously vigorous; being intensely forceful

1

to shut out one's opponents; to stop the other side from scoring

1

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

2

to damage; to do harm; to disadvantage

1

... all over again (repeating the same failure)

1

time; moment; time of death; last moment; (arch.) midnight in red-light districts during the Edo period

1

scattering; sprinkling; shaking

2

to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice; to speak emphatically

1

in the morning; during the morning

1

intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart

1

due form; official; formality

1

to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

1

in person; personally; directly

1

can do nothing but (do); cannot help (doing) something

1

to hesitate to say

1

(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)

1

well; now; then

2

departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.

1

no matter how much time passes

1

to be fit (for a role); to be qualified (for); to be equal (to a task); to be able to fulfill one's duties (as)

1

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

2