jpdb beta

gentle; mild-mannered

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eight; 8

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to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending

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near; close by; within reach; familiar

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correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications

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search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry

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playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

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to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn

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preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding

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obstacle; hindrance; impediment; difficulty

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languid; weary; listless; melancholy

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standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert

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in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing

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being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering

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reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; retrogradation; retrogression

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to cross (e.g. road); to traverse

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focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving

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to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light

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learning by ear; memory of having heard something before

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thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan

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to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with

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to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)

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wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment

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existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive

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knob; doorknob

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imposingly; heavily; conspicuously; in a dignified manner

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to remain; to stay (somewhere)

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make-up

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to wipe off; to wipe up

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shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes

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to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew

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tensely; tightly; erectly; intuitively; instinctively; with a burst

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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

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flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; current of the times; trend of the times

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to be rejuvenated; to feel young again

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exaggerated; overblown; pretentious

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to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to stop (doing); to give up

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standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against

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feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection

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to grow cold (from room temperature, e.g. in refrigerator); to get chilly; to cool down

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understanding and acceptance; spiritual awakening; a heart that understands truth; (feeling of) resignation

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outspoken; frank; candid

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a few hours

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secret manoeuvres (maneuvers); operating behind the scenes

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wig; hairpiece; toupee

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to let one's hair hang down

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monocle; lorgnon

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magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification

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not factored in; not included in calculations; unaccounted for; unplanned for

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counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth

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