jpdb beta

capacity

1

to buy more (of something)

1

hardware store; DIY store; home improvement retailer

1

cleaning; scrubbing

1

verbal promise; one's word

2

link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic

5

to stumble (over); to trip; to fail; to suffer a setback

1

to collapse into; to flop onto

7

attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull; attractiveness; magnetism

1

to come to the point; to get straight to the point; to speak frankly; to speak plainly; to talk straight

1

process; course; mechanism

3

to speed; to tear away; to skip over (e.g. pages)

1

impulse; impetus; urge

10

to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)

5

raging storm

1

to blow violently; to sweep over; to devastate

1

silent; solemn; quiet

1

home cooking

6

oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice; threesome including a mother and her daughter

1

to be treated to a meal; to be given a meal

1

ingredient; foodstuff

5

one's share; one's portion

2

washing (esp. dishes and laundry)

6

entrance; front door

1

to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high

5

to run; to dash; to gallop (on horseback); to canter; (arch.) to advance (against one's enemy); (arch.) to charge (on horseback)

4

clear; distinct; evident; definite

1

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

7

to look stern

1

whispering; subdued; murmuring; dry and tasteless

3

locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors

1

to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

2

condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); condensation (of a vapour or gas)

1

lack of self-reliance; depending on others

2

to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable

4

to narrow; to contract

3

(wicker) basket used for carrying fish; creel

3

late at night

6

novelist; fiction writer

1

to fall in love

1

coward; sissy; weakling; loser; milquetoast; good-for-nothing

1

discussion; discourse; lecture; sermon

3

feeble complaint; whine

1

(a) weakness; shortcoming; failing; sore point

4

goodness; good

2

to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)

4

to be at a loss for words; to be speechless; to be dumbfounded; to be struck dumb

1

busybody; meddler; nosey parker

1

fellow women; between women; among women; woman-to-woman

4

to swell; to expand; to inflate; to bulge

3