jpdb beta

to invite in; to show someone in

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tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act

2

to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad side of a bargain; (lit.) to draw the joker (i.e. when playing Old Maid)

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beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions

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misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune

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eye-witness; witness

2

search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.

2

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

2

riskiness; (level of) danger

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to think of; to come up with

1

series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza

1

to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry

2

to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (cat)

2

that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there

1

son

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time (three times, each time, etc.); times

2

synopsis; outline; plot

1

careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

3

to hesitate; to hold back; to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus

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presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in

2

fabrication; forgery; falsehood; hoax

3

confinement

1

to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

1

play; drama

1

to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten

1

ringing; sound

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lewdness; lewd person; pervert; lecher

1

to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away

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vanishing behind the clouds (e.g. of the moon); vanishing; suddenly disappearing; going into hiding

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beyond that point; after that

4

(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly

2

at once; right away; promptly; on the spur of the moment

2

to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out

1

manipulation of information; spin

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lone criminal; sole perpetrator; crime carried out by one person

1

middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly

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to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important

2

until something reaches the very limit; until the very last minute; up to the breaking point

1

dead of night; midnight

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opposite direction

2

daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period

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admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled

3

to plan one's next moves; to work out a plan

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any- (e.g. anything, anywhere, anyone); -ever (e.g. whatever, wherever, whenever); even (if it's just ...); at least; either ... or ...

1

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted

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in the meanwhile; during the time

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to moan; to groan

3

sobbing; sob; weeping

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to hold; to carry; to embrace (in one's arms)

2

sobbing; weeping; fit of crying

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