jpdb beta

very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just

3

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

4

current value; price; market value

1

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

10

offender; criminal

1

even so; all the same; nevertheless; yes, but ...

3

(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case

1

since; henceforth

3

to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)

1

handshake; reconciliation; joining hands; cooperation

2

sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around

1

having sticky fingers; compulsive thievery; habitual movement of one's hands; marks from being handled often

1

to become independent; to leave one's hands; to leave one's possession

1

(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look

2

cellophane tape; (transparent) adhesive tape; Sellotape; Scotch tape

2

fingerprint

3

picking; collecting; harvesting

2

completion; conclusion; perfect (tense, form, aspect)

3

treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like

4

at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

2

continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago

12

very much; exceedingly; extremely

1

alibi

1

even

4

munching; crunching; scratching (an itch)

1

cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties

7

real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own)

1

guilt; culpability

1

reading in a monotone; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

2

laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)

4

reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre

3

blanket

1

if I (we, etc.) could

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

1

precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed

4

feeble joke; bad pun

1

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

2

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

2

unnecessary; not needed; not necessary

5

discoverer

1

to take refuge in; to succeed in running away

1

mistake; error; blunder

4

odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...

10

crossly; angrily; strongly smelling; reeking

1

to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright

5

just before

1

when; at what point

3

to start eating

1

bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water

7

standoffishly; primly; pungently (of a smell); acridly; long and pointed (e.g. of a nose); popping (of ears)

1