jpdb beta

reason; cause; circumstances

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going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

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having served one's purpose; being finished (with); business settled

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paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow

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to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake

5

ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies

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exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

1

of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing

3

dumbfounded; in mute amazement

2

indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)

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to roll; to tumble; to fall over; to roll over; to lie down; to be scattered about; to be lying around

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to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big

6

tottering; staggering; faltering; reeling

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to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)

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to turn aside adroitly; to dodge

1

as time passes; with the passing of time; with time

1

a certain someone; Mr So-and-so

1

to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other

1

offensive; aggressive

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thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words

3

originally; by nature; from the start

4

tendency; trend; inclination

1

increase; rise; growth; addition; increment

1

quarrel; dispute

1

solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause

1

sizzling (of cooking meat, fish, etc.); frizzling

2

to fry; to saute; to stir-fry

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clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain

2

rapist; rape fiend

4

who?

1

to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

2

disinformation; false information

1

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

1

ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly

1

to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)

2

realistic; pragmatic

1

commencing with; including

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to throw; to toss; to hit; to strike; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles)

1

frontal attack

2

ability; capability; skill

4

teapot

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piping hot; scalding; madly in love; passionately in love

1

black tea

3

cup (drinking vessel, measure, brassiere, prize, etc.)

2

to pour (into); to sprinkle on (from above); to water (e.g. plants); to shed (tears); to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on; to devote to; to flow into (e.g. of a river)

2

affirmation; affirmative (logic)

3

move with haste (when you have no doubts)

4

more haste, less speed; slow and steady wins the race

4

also called

1

to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner

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