jpdb beta

brink; critical moment

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freezing; turning into ice; freezing; locking up; freezing (in one's tracks); frieze (part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice)

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to make a profit

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wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief

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Satan; the Devil; the Prince of Darkness; king of the demons who try to prevent people from doing good

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vulnerability; weakness; fragility

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greatly energetic; ferocious; extreme; severe

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to writhe (in agony)

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sad; melancholy

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to cross the line; to go too far

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any and every thing; altogether; lock, stock, and barrel; the whole shooting match; the whole kit and caboodle; without reserve

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self-torture; masochism; inflicting damage to oneself

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true feeling

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unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel

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acute ear; good ear

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to show; to bare (the teeth)

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random pounding (e.g. on a drum)

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definiteness; certainty

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reverse; inversion; upside down; unreasonable; absurd; wrong

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palate

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to flip-flop; to do an about-face; (lit.) to flip over one's hand; to do something easy

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failure; defeat; mistake; unconsciousness

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that's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!

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to stare back (at); to glare back

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to be too busy; to be occupied; to concentrate on single-mindedly

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steep angle; acute angle

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change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)

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left side; left-hand side

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feint

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return gift; return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction)

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(being) out of range (e.g. mobile network, radar, missiles); (being) out of contention; (being) beyond influence

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safety zone; buffer (e.g. against defeat)

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rapid-fire gun or cannon; talking rapidly; barrage of words or questions

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one revolution; one rotation

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snake; serpent; large snake

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to twine around

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feeler; tentacle

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without losing time (e.g. to do); without even time for (doing something)

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insignificant; inconsequential; trifling; negligible; of little importance

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opposite effect; adverse effect; backfiring

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breakthrough (research, etc.); breach; opening

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unthinkable; unexpected; outrageous; offensive

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rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby

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house-cloth; dust cloth

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to lay the blame on; to put the fault on

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pretense of evil; pretence of evil

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fanatic; fanatic believer; zealot

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punch (with the fist); punching (a hole); hole punch; punch (drink); punch (in a song, speech, etc.); impact

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foliage; leaves of trees

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ecological

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