jpdb beta

to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to

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one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years

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lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful

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this world; this life; world of the living

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motherhood; maternity

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devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

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sorry; apologetic; remorseful

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easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all

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looking pale; looking unwell

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to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)

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eating out; dining out

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old friend; old pal

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snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)

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Italian

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restaurant (esp. Western-style)

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invitation; introduction; temptation

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refreshing; exhilarating; invigorating; bracing

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dividing into parts

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sharing a room, flat, apartment, or house (with roommates, flatmates, etc.)

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meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence

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to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged

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occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally

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poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite

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route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)

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contagion; infection

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clock; watch; timepiece

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thoroughly; completely; severely; harshly; (arch.) scattered; (arch.) disconnected

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persuasion

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to cover one's face

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to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)

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to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled

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to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)

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to have an eye on; to zero in on

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copulation (among animals); mating; treading; covering; serving

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persecution; oppression

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express home delivery service; express home delivery parcel (box, etc.)

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to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)

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karaoke box; club with individual rooms that can be rented with karaoke machines

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call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

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tedious; boring; being fed up with

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use; utilization; utilisation; application

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retention; maintenance; preservation

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order (for an item); request; demand; condition

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oolong tea

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throat; singing voice

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

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breath; breathing; tone; mood

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to go to meet somebody

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fraction; odd sum; odd money; small change; (arch.) low class female servant

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in those days

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