jpdb beta

to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit

3

inevitable; unavoidable; certain; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)

1

black kite (Milvus migrans); Inverness cape; filcher; sneak thief

1

persuasion

1

to snatch (and run); to carry off; to swipe; to scoop up (and remove; sand, earth, etc.)

1

ice; shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)

1

fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred

1

abura-age; thin deep-fried slices of tofu; deep-frying; deep-fried food

2

description; expression (in words); qualification (e.g. of a noun with an adjective); form; figure; appearance

1

unsociable; unfriendly; blunt; surly; curt; cold

6

small build; small stature; petite; small pattern

3

no; nope

1

rut; wheel track; furrow; groove; (fig.) footsteps; (fig.) wake

1

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

2

you (singular)

2

to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy

2

slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out

1

to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path

1

to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent

1

cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection

2

left eye

1

elegance; dandyism; sophistication; affectation; showing off; putting on an air

2

fact; truth; reality; in fact; actually

1

to leave behind

1

to hang one's head; to droop one's head

3

lack of expression; lack of emotion; blank look (on one's face)

6

to the end; to the last

2

to express in a refined fashion; to weave a web of words

1

scarabaeid beetle grub; any insect (or worm, etc.) that lives in soil

1

earthworm; worm

1

slug

1

to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)

2

frog; kajika frog

1

scorn; disdain; contempt; slight

1

lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild

2

beyond description

1

root; basis; foundation

1

to (hit and) crush; to smash; to squash; to defeat soundly; to crush (an opponent, hopes, etc.)

1

to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil

1

iron (Fe); steel; iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.); railway; railway enthusiast

1

ash; ashes

2

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

4

to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)

6

being in abstraction; being dazed; being absentminded; stargazing

1

nothing but; except; no more than

2

to have one's heart stop beating; to be shocked; to be staggered

1

curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

1

breath; breathing; concord; harmony; steam (coming off hot food, tea, etc.); (water) vapor

3

spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

5

two months

3