jpdb beta

to grimace; to make a wry face

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to catch (someone's words); to make out; to follow; to ask about (a situation, circumstances, etc.); to inquire

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relief; aid; help; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace

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bits and pieces; frizzily (as in perm)

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to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan); to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable; to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)

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real intention; motive; true opinion; what one really thinks

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scorching heat

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to make someone cry; to move someone to tears; to grieve

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now is the time

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to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out

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oath; vow

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night view; night skyline; nightscape

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layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)

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breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing

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surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard

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blow; hit; stroke

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wonder; miracle; amazement; prodigy

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to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip

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(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front

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return gift; return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction)

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triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate

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to shoot through something (wall, body, etc.); to pierce (e.g. with an arrow or a look)

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acceleration

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be considered; be deemed; be thought to be

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cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth; shrieking sound; woman's scream; cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

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

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meteorite

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dropkick; flying kick

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to fly through the air; to hurtle through the air; to strike at something and miss; to fan the air

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fierce; intense; severe; violent; strong; vehement

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to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)

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site; point on a map; spot

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embers

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to dance down (leaves, petals, etc.); to fall as if dancing

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to look upwards; to look up

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nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic

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to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope); to head out as a group; to set out in large numbers; to send out one after another; to dispatch

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unfathomable; inestimable; immeasurable

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to be confusing; to be different from what one is used to

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to mow down; to scythe down; to knock someone off their feet

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chain; chains

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or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...

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several tens

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guillotine

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(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold

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lethal; fatal

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freedom of the person; personal freedom; personal liberty

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crushing to death; crushing (hope, freedom, etc.); suppression; quashing

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quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to

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lack of self-reliance; depending on others

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