jpdb beta

audience (with a person of high standing); eye-level

1

great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique

2

to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)

1

slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago

1

negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness

1

performance; execution; skill; dexterity; tact

1

mastery

1

guard; convoy; escort

5

hypothesis; supposition; assumption

1

signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking

1

happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately

2

withdrawal; secession; separation; breakaway

3

chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox

2

quickly; at once; right away; hurriedly

1

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

1

pit of the stomach; solar plexus

2

puppet; marionette

1

to lay down; to wear (a sword, etc.) at one's side

1

to run away; to run off

2

decoy (for hunting); stool; lure; decoy; stool pigeon

6

tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation

3

by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly

1

railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations

2

to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

1

having gone too far to turn back

1

to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake

3

to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords

1

the opposite direction; the other way

2

arrangements; plan; programme; program; preparations

2

full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)

2

evil spirit (that can possess people)

1

dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)

1

putting off; postponing

1

in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely

1

to fire a gun; to let off a gun; to loose off a shell

1

to attract; to draw near; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion

7

to call (someone) back; to recall; to call home; to bring back (memories, etc.); to recall; to revive

1

to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively; to do throughout (e.g. the night)

1

to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell; to be filled with (emotion, energy, etc.); to be bursting with; to be brimming with

3

brush

2

hedge

2

to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath

3

banquet or reception hall

1

to put to sleep; to kill

1

moron; idiot; stupid person

1

camp stool; folding stool

1

fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool

1

you; people

1

(arch.) I; (arch.) me; (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows; affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets

2