jpdb beta

to draw in (one's body); to duck (one's head)

1

fierce look; frightening look; tough look; aggressive attitude; coercive attitude; taking a hard line

1

to travel on frequently (e.g. a road or path)

1

opening time; starting time of work

1

throughout Japan

2

bold; daring; dauntless; intrepid; stout-hearted

2

fishing rod

1

(animal) feed; fodder; pet food; bait; lure; enticement

3

lowborn; humble; vulgar; coarse; shabby; greedy

1

all over Japan; throughout Japan

3

change; transformation; innovation; Reformation

1

nothing but; none other than

3

capable of anything; liable to do

1

hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)

3

to laugh away; to laugh off

2

junior high school student; middle school pupil

1

to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb

3

irrational (line of) argument

4

fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion

4

lending and borrowing

1

support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

2

ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly

1

to pick out item(s) from a group to keep

1

to put oneself in (situation, environment, etc.); to surround oneself with

2

special case; exception

2

to live long; to survive

1

plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post

2

to try all possible means

1

from the beginning

7

ingratiation; pandering; catering (to); going along with (someone or something); accommodating oneself (e.g. to public opinion)

1

to lose an easy game; to suffer an unexpected defeat; to lose information

1

cold-hearted; callous; unfeeling; insentient (objects); insensate; inanimate

1

to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up

5

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

1

to control one's temper

1

to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve

3

open seam; seam that has come apart; tear

1

use of force

2

to take back; to recapture

3

to knock down; to defeat

4

good person; virtuous person

4

recovery; undoing; recall

3

serious matter; major incident; matter of grave concern; crisis

1

to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)

1

happy ending

5

at any rate; in any event; either way; anyway

4

duel; shoot-out

1

to instigate; to incite; to spur on; to set (e.g. a dog after someone)

1

whole nation; whole land; whole country

9

one color; one colour; one article; same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing

2