jpdb beta

land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap

4

removal; getting rid of

2

painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

4

to moan; to groan

2

to swell up

1

to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up

8

to wind (of a road, etc.); to meander; to twist; to undulate; to surge; to swell

2

suddenly; abruptly; unexpectedly

3

to become independent; to leave one's hands; to leave one's possession

1

to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)

2

to raise overhead

2

skull; cranium

1

to break; to smash

1

butt of a gun

1

corner; nook; recess

2

to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

1

to pin down; to knock down; to push (and hold) somebody down (esp. with sexual connotations)

1

abdomen

1

to kick into the air; to kick up; to kick from below

2

to send (something) flying; to splatter; to drive (something) off

1

with a click (door sound); with tenseness or firmness

1

to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound

8

surface of a wall

1

rail (track); (curtain) rail; track (for a sliding door); groundwork; spadework

1

to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)

1

instant; moment; (split) second; (in a) flash; (in the) blink of an eye

1

wire; wire rope

2

top; summit; twelve o'clock (usu. midnight); top of one's head; top of a helmet

2

barbed wire

2

viscously; stickily

1

offensive smell; off-flavor; off-flavour

1

to feel nauseated; to feel sick

2

angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)

3

entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule

8

lock; padlock; tablet; lozenge; pill

1

firing; discharge of gun

1

to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue

2

as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather

5

to rush back; to run back

1

pink

8

white

1

velvet

1

living room (Western style); sitting room

6

kitchen

14

to collapse into; to flop onto

2

both sides

3

handcuffs; manacles

20

out of necessity; with no other option; perforce; unavoidably; reluctantly; unwillingly

2

sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching

5

thunderous roar; roaring sound

1