jpdb beta

pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)

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spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb

1

to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract

1

to stroke; to caress; to brush gently; to comb (hair); to smooth down

2

good boy; good girl

2

boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn

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in accordance with; according to

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temptress; flirt; minx; murder of a man; murderer of a man

1

cradle

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peace (of mind); tranquility; tranquillity; serenity

3

fatal; lethal

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be (that) as it may; having said that

2

to rub out; to clean off; to clear away; to efface; to erase

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fastidiousness; fussiness about cleanliness, etc.; clean-freak

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hosts; all the armies

2

covering; protection; backing; relief

4

established (certain) fact

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cats and dogs (as an example of a bad relationship); (lit.) dogs and monkeys

2

to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)

1

being irresistible; being furiously vigorous; being intensely forceful

1

one (of a pair); incomplete; imperfect; few; little; off-centre

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to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist

2

clock; watch; timepiece

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to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve

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silence; stillness; quietness

3

through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

2

to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)

1

to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound

7

to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

1

how many times?

1

to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done

2

opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse

3

to be used to; to get accustomed to; to train; to discipline; to tack (in needlework); to baste

1

such a thing; something like that

1

declining; refusal; rejection; announcement; notice

1

to lose sight of (one's companions); to stray from; to miss (one's chance to ...)

1

now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again

11

persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

2

sound argument; fair argument; just reasoning

4

in a sense; in some way; to an extent

1

being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to

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long-term

2

(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)

3

poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite

2

root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

1

ephemeral; transitory

2

sense of impending crisis; sense of danger

7

to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels

1

to be given the cold shoulder; to be jilted; to be rejected; to be dumped

1

easy; simple; there's no way that ...

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