jpdb beta

siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement

2

something long; useless things; white elephant; boondoggle

1

white clothing

5

presbyopia; age-related longsightedness; farsightedness

1

oh; ah; I'll be darned

2

moan; groan; groaning

2

deadlock; stalemate

1

Shōwa Station (Antarctica); Showa Station; Syowa Station

1

South Pole; the Antarctic; Antarctica

1

difficult situation

1

offense; offence; method of attack

2

nature; property; disposition

1

mark; guide; purpose; aim; sight (on a firearm)

2

but; however; even though; even if

9

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

1

escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing

3

dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness

2

nonaggressive defense (policy) (defence)

1

to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak

2

fixing a bayonet

1

life; living; I; me; student

1

bayonet; guns and swords

1

distance in a straight line

1

limit; bound

2

the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there

2

dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)

1

private house

1

slowly; inefficiently; tardily; dawdling

1

to get tired of waiting; to grow impatient

2

meeting; greeting; welcome

1

police officer; policeman; policewoman

2

danger; peril; hazard; risk

12

to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)

3

on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with

2

skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

2

to work out; to think out; to devise; to invent

1

passing (along the way)

1

to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)

6

driver (of a vehicle); screwdriver; driver (golf); driver; device driver

7

to deceive (with words); to cajole; to talk into; to explain away (e.g. unpleasant evidence); to argue away; to wheedle

1

jail; gaol; jailhouse

1

legitimate self-defence; legitimate self-defense

1

to apply (a rule); to be applicable; to come under (a category); to fulfill; to hold true

1

knowledge; information

5

sporadic

1

high-pitched; shrill

2

cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine

1

doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")

18

if not ...; unless ...

1

kennel; doghouse

1