jpdb beta

expectation; assume will happen; forecast

1

scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops

3

time passes

4

looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia

3

grim face

1

tough; strong; stiff; tenacious

1

looking someone in the eyes; taking a straight look at something

2

by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally

1

wick; marrow; core; heart; pistil (of a flower); stamen

1

bitter

5

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing

10

thrust; stab; tsuki; thrust to the throat (in kendo); tsuki; thrust to the chest

11

external wound; (physical) trauma

1

instant death

2

to whirl; to eddy; to be all jumbled together (feelings, thoughts, etc.); to surge; to sweep

1

astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum

3

reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre

2

from the beginning; without hesitation; flatly (e.g. refusing); entirely; completely

3

to keep an eye on; to keep a watchful eye on

1

concentrated fire; intense criticism

1

embarrassed smile; embarrassed laugh; bashful smile

2

gesture; movement; action; acting; performance

3

tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox

2

to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.

1

frail; slender; feminine

7

darkness

1

warning; advice

2

silence; stillness; quietness

1

to compare

1

inferiority

1

fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown

1

to be oversized (overloud, etc.)

1

bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)

4

call; appeal

4

shades of evening; dead of night

1

desperately; for one's dear life

5

to bite and tear; to bite a hole in

1

carotid artery

1

(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante)

1

virtually empty; quite empty; inadequately defended; defenseless; defenceless

2

spear hand

1

gloomy; dismal; miserable; spirit of yin

1

body build

1

huge; big; gargantuan

4

internal organs; viscera; intestines

3

wherein; therein; thereinto

1

to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

1

immediately; instantly; with nary a pause; without a moment's delay

4

evasion; avoidance

2

to act; to take action

1