jpdb beta

sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity

5

to screw up; to put the screws on (a person); to constrict (someone, something)

1

flickering; flashing on and off; glaringly (bright); painfully (bright); prickling (pain)

1

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

6

pluralizing suffix

1

to strangle to death

1

sign of remorse; indication of regret

1

lens

1

camouflage

1

measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy

7

to entrance; to possess; to enthrall

6

to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved

25

to be powered on; to be turned on

3

optimism; taking an optimistic view

3

to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at

4

prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum

1

(one) stroke

1

thumb; big toe

2

lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful

5

ecstasy; rapture; trance; senility

1

to picture; to come into one's mind; to remember

6

hostage

9

either way; in any case; one way or another

1

taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction

3

sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive

26

to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing

1

popular use; circulation; to pass as; to pass for

2

closing of a park (e.g. theme park, botanical garden, etc.)

1

counter for people

2

just one person; only one

8

completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)

1

visitors; attendance

2

innermost depths of one's heart

2

pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe

3

handcuffs; manacles

16

coating; painting

3

role (which someone or something plays in a given situation); part; contribution (to a given situation)

1

to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself

6

to hate; to dislike

3

resigning to another's will; going along without resistance; doing as another wants

4

one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue

2

to turn one's face away

2

dropping (of tears, dew, etc.); falling off; dropping off; inadvertently (coming to the surface); letting out (e.g. a secret)

1

to crack; to develop a crack

2

to remove; to eliminate

2

dull sound; muffled sound

3

to droop (e.g. ears of grain); to bow one's head; to hang one's head

1

to be able to see

6

to look upward

8

in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh

1