jpdb beta

to chew up

2

anaesthesia; anesthesia

5

saw; musical saw

1

to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)

1

to dribble; to spill; to suspend; to hang down; to slouch

1

to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)

1

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)

1

to writhe (in pain); to be in agony; to be anguished; to be agonized; to be troubled

1

illustrated diary; picture diary

1

materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis

1

basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

2

male (animal, plant)

1

female (animal, plant)

1

to multiply; to crossbreed; to cross-breed; to mix (e.g. paint colours)

1

mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

1

incinerator

1

calm; composed; cool; quiet

3

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

4

to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

1

to come alive; to get going; to start to move

1

action of making something; -ification

2

violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement

1

original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal

1

nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion

1

mesh (of a net)

1

human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person

1

human flesh

2

disagreeable; unpleasant; adverse; unsympathetic

1

influence; power; might; strength; potency; force

1

and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless

3

scholar

1

heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)

4

risk

1

moral way of life; correct path; moral principles

1

science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits

1

such a stupid ...; what a crazy ...; no way!; what nonsense!; how can that be?

1

to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued

1

monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision

1

sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly

1

to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over

3

it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...

4

connivance; tacit consent; toleration; acquiescence

2

to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

2

to bear up in tragedy; to stand pain well; to hold one's temper; to clench one's teeth; to grit one's teeth

13

to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter

1

not only

2

to tie; to restrain; to confine; to bind; to fasten

1

failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards

1

to smile

1

adult; grown-up

4