jpdb beta

losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown

1

relative by marriage; affinity

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to be sacked; to be dismissed

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viceroy; governor-general

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signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking

1

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

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to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress

1

product; produce; result; fruit

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to have a reason; to have an excuse

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to do (someone) a wrong; to do (someone) an ill turn; to take revenge; to resent; to bear a grudge

1

to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with

1

many; a multiplicity of

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to side with (someone); to support (someone)

1

to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

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to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)

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piling up; accumulating; forming a (huge) pile; lying in piles

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to disappear; to vanish

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front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)

1

imprisonment; incarceration

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to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through

1

up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...

1

fall; decrease (in income)

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taxes; taxation

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injustice; unfairness; wrongdoing; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity

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petty official

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smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

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one year and a half

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centre; center; pivot; central nervous system

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to hang on to; to hang from; to hound; to keep after (someone); to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips

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head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team

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it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it

2

bureau director; office chief

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(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat

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human sacrifice; victim

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accepting; consenting; agreeing; submission; compliance; agreement

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quarrel; argument; row; (verbal) dispute

1

organs of the state; machinery of the state

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a certain ...

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snake in one's bosom; treacherous friend

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dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine

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to be rested; to feel at ease; to repose; to be relieved

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person of paramount authority; supreme wielder of power

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substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)

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to pin a crime on

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rebellion; uprising; insurrection; (arch.) treason

1

having no memory of (having done something); having nothing to do with; having no knowledge of; knowing nothing about

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to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)

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death (of an emperor); demise

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the late emperor

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government official; clerk

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