jpdb beta

full name

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cross sign

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only; sole; unique

5

vampire; bloodsucker

1

what with this and that; for a number of reasons

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to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

1

care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter

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learning by ear; memory of having heard something before

1

Tokyo

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Osaka (city)

1

interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance

1

speed (per hour)

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gyudon; rice covered with sliced beef, usu. with fried onion

1

to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to ooh and aah (in admiration)

3

tendon

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labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work

1

uncool; lame; unfashionable; unstylish; tacky; tasteless

2

selfishness; egotism; egoism; (being) self-centered; without consulting; (doing) as one pleases

3

(falling) deeply in love

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kendo; Japanese martial art using bamboo swords

1

stick; piece of wood; billet; piece of a broken pole

1

how much; how many; however (much); no matter how; what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...

2

corridor; passage; hall

1

about this time; about now

2

one line; one stretch (e.g. of road); earnest; resolute; (arch.) one bloodline; (arch.) one clan

3

particularly; only; in the case of

1

to make out with; to make cozy with (cosy); to do at one's own discretion

1

to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin

1

(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability

1

hack; inferior horse; inferior person; incapable person

1

Ogawa Kentarō (1934.1.12-1995.10.8)

1

stream; brook; creek

1

to be mad about; to be hooked on; to find something hilarious; to find something so funny that one cannot stop laughing

1

soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself

1

writhing (in agony)

4

carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently

2

secrecy; confidentiality; privacy; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal)

1

the work of man; human feat; something humanly possible

1

closet

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to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better; to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to be sensible

2

looking for (a suitable thing or person); searching for; hunting out; picking out; shopping around for; searching (a place)

2

intellectual curiosity; out of curiosity; inquisitiveness

1

changing clothes; change of clothes

2

daring attack tactic

1

process; course; mechanism

1

unforeseen; unexpected; sudden; accidental

1

such-and-such a place

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chink in the armor (armour)

3

to be turned up; to be lifted up (e.g. by the wind)

2

to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)

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