jpdb beta

railing; guard rail; (arch.) (shining) brightly (of the moon or stars); (arch.) (flowing) endlessly (of tears)

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to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on

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to blow through; to blow across

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to listen carefully; to strain one's ears

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effort; initiative; dealing with; bout (in sports, etc.); match

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last year

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distinctive; characteristic

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construction; establishment

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famous; well-known

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designer

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to get (someone's) help; to ask for help

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change to ...; becoming ...; making into ...; -ization; -ification

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faddist; follow-the-crowd type; poser; trend junkie; sheep

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so; accordingly; now; then; thereupon; therefore

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before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing

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to make (someone) angry; to anger; to offend; to square (one's shoulders); to raise (one's voice) in anger; to make (one's eyes) glare

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illumination; decorative lighting

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to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on

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unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

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enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it

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deceitful; cruel

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annoyance (to); bane (of); constant worry (to)

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gigolo

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shh!; shush!; hush!; shoo!; scram!

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thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article

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rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)

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address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era

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barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless

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to backfire; to produce a result opposite to what was expected or intended

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ill will; malice; evil intent

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of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant

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deeply (stab, thrust, etc.); hard

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taking back what one just said; eating one's words; negating one's previous comment, opinion, etc.

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self-awareness; awareness (of one's position, abilities, duty, etc.); perceiving (something); taking in (a sensation); self-consciousness

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serious illness

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to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

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year before last

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mere; only; just; slight

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high fever; intense heat

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(state of) unconsciousness

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to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)

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pudding (esp. custard); black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black

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replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new

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opening (the doors of a venue); inauguration (of a new building, facility, etc.)

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purine body; purine

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bloodstream; blood flow

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to be true to nature; to be lifelike

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name; title

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behind one's back

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(a) step forward

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