jpdb beta

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

6

tornado; waterspout

1

cloud of dust; sandstorm

1

to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)

1

to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily

2

to escape

3

to throw at; to throw something at a person; to throw a person down

2

immediately; right away; on the spot

1

to knock down; to knock off

2

metallic sound; metallic clank

1

to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver

7

to soak into; to permeate; to penetrate

1

to moisten; to wet; to profit; to enrich; to benefit

4

series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza

1

image (on a screen); picture (e.g. on a TV); video; film; reflection; image (in one's mind)

3

to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air

1

slowly (but steadily); gradually; irritatedly; impatiently; scorchingly (of the sun); sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil); sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc.

4

interval; distance; suitable time; appropriate opportunity; distance between opponents (kendo)

2

influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne

2

no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook

1

arrogance; insolence; disrespect

1

whirlwind; sensation; commotion; hullabaloo

4

to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar

3

point of a spear; spearhead; focus (of one's attack, criticism, etc.); aim; force (of an argument); edge

1

to glance at; to look at; to scan; to run one's eyes over

1

counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow

2

true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses

3

to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master

1

just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of

2

to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire

1

low voice; whisper

1

to slip through; to make one's way through quickly

1

to burn into one's memory; to sear an image

2

to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)

1

attacking a fleeing enemy; additional attack on a weakened enemy; additional blow to an already unfortunate situation

1

(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy

5

number (on its own, without considering its proportion to the whole); overall number

1

large army

1

soon; in the near future

1

mad (with grief, love, etc.); crazy; out of one's mind; on the verge of insanity

2

earnest desire; eager hope; longing; yearning; hankering

1

to embrace

3

in its entirety; whole; wholly

1

to gush out

1

somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

4

defeat; lost battle; losing a war

1

literally; to the letter; literal

1

to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)

1

to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after

2

annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat

2