jpdb beta

to keep within limits (e.g. spending); to restrain (e.g. emotions); to control; to hold back (e.g. an enemy); to check; to curb

13

volley; fusillade

2

use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

4

apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

2

here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up

1

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

2

heaps of corpses all around

1

flying column; detached force

6

to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be discomposed; to be upset; to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)

1

for better or worse; luckily or unluckily

1

giant

2

female; smaller (of the two); weaker; (arch.) woman; (arch.) wife

1

relief; rescue

1

end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring

1

intruder; infiltrator

1

surroundings; environs; circumference

4

maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling

3

to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply

1

dark

4

all nighter; sleepless night

1

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

1

to be coming; to be popular; to be fashionable; to be angry; to have blown one's lid

3

(sense of) rivalry; competitiveness

2

almost everyone

1

after a short pause

2

to be reminded of; to call to mind

2

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

1

night attack; nocturnal assault

3

after this; henceforth; henceforward; from now on

8

arrangements; plan; programme; program; preparations

1

day after day; every day

1

youth; young person

1

bloodsucking; sucking blood

2

scar (e.g. from operation, injection); trace; mark (e.g. skid marks)

2

stillness of night

1

covering; protection; backing; relief

1

to impress (someone)

1

group engaged in some activity (players, companies, forces, etc.)

1

only; nothing but

1

in; at; for

4

when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives

1

disturbance; perturbation; derangement

1

first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag

5

to put on airs; to assume importance

1

in this case

4

rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance; one who arrests; force attacking the rear of a castle; (opponent's) weak point

3

one's own army; one's own team

1

head-on collision

1

decisive battle; deciding match; play-off

2

opposite effect; adverse effect; backfiring

4