jpdb beta

securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying

3

solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating

1

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

5

to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)

2

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

4

jaw joint; temporomandibular joint; TMJ

1

lock

1

structure; construction; makeup; framework; organization; pattern

3

limits; end; bounds

2

power

2

to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance

1

bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit

4

lower jaw; mandible

2

destruction; disruption; (application) crash

4

right under; directly below

1

freedom; liberty

4

to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away

1

to catch fire; to provoke; to catch fire from; to be ignited

1

features; looks

1

eyeball

2

to glare at; to scowl at

1

snake; serpent; large snake

2

threat; intimidation; menace

2

ancient times

3

saber-toothed tiger (sabre)

3

upper jaw; palate

2

quantity; amount; generosity; magnanimity; pramana; (in Indian philosophy) means by which one gains accurate and valid knowledge

2

to trickle down

2

two Deva kings; guardian gods of Buddhism who stand at the entrance of a Buddhist temple

1

burly; strong; indomitable; indefatigable; robust (vitality, appetite, economic growth, etc.); strong

2

to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see

1

the other; the other one

2

to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp

3

house-cloth; dust cloth

1

to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort

2

cervical vertebrae

1

convulsion; cramp; spasm; tic; twitch; fit

2

even ... (e.g. "even a genius")

1

to be crushed; to be squashed (flat); to be discouraged

1

metal fittings; metal fixtures

1

to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)

3

to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly

1

to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down

1

the very thing; itself

10

tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot

3

body; physique; build; stature

3

slim

1

(outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression

2

look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting

2

cat (Felis catus); domestic cat; house cat; indoor cat

2