Results, drain
- 水抜き【みずぬき】 Inflection
noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:
- drain; drainage; draining; weeping
- 溝★【みぞ・どぶ】
noun:
- ditch; drain; gutter; trench
- groove; tread [みぞ]
- gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf [みぞ]
- 下水道★【げすいどう】
noun:
- sewer; sewer system; sewerage; drain
そして汚水を流すために地下に下水道を持っていた。 The house has pipes under the ground to carry dirty water away.
- 流す★【ながす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to drain; to pour; to spill; to shed (blood, tears) ➜ 涙を流す
- to wash away
- to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to broadcast; to beam
- to cruise (e.g. taxi)
- to float; to set adrift
- to call off (a meeting, etc.)
- to exile; to banish
あんな恐ろしい男のために流す涙はない。 I cannot shed a tear for that horrible man.
水に流す。 Don't cry over spilled milk.
彼は夕方のニュースで、その殺人の裁判を最初に流すことに決めた。 He decided to put the murder trial first in the evening news.
- 飲み干す☆【のみほす】飲干すirr.・飲み乾す・飲乾すirr.・飲みほす Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to drink up; to drain (cup)
彼は井戸を飲み干すほどのどが渇いていた。 He was thirsty enough to drink a well dry.
- 鳩槃荼【くばんだ】
noun:
- Kumbhanda; demon with large testicles believed to drain people of their vitality - Buddhism term
- ごぼごぼ
~と adverb:
- gurgling; burbling; bubbling; sound of water mixing with air (e.g. water welling up, pouring water, drain pipe, gushing forth) - onomatopoeia
- 干す☆【ほす】乾す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to air; to dry; to desiccate
- to drain (off)
- to drink up
- to deprive of a role, job, etc. - usu. in the passive
梅雨の晴れ間に洗濯物を干すと気分はもう夏でした。 Drying the washing on a fine day in the rainy season; I felt like it was already summer.
- 抜く☆【ぬく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to pull out; to draw out; to extract; to unplug; to weed
- to omit; to leave out; to go without; to skip
auxiliary verb / godan ~く verb:
- to do to the end; to carry through
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to let out (e.g. air from a tyre); to drain (e.g. water from a bath); to empty
- to pick out; to choose; to select; to extract
- to pilfer; to steal
- to remove; to get rid of; to take out
- to pass; to overtake; to outstrip; to get ahead of
- to pierce; to break through; to go through - also written 貫く
- to cut out (a shape); to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area
- to seize; to capture; to reduce
- to scoop (a story)
- to take out (an opponent's stones; in go)
godan ~く verb:
- to masturbate (of a male); to ejaculate (while masturbating) - slang - vulgar
- to take (a photo); to record (video) - slang
庭の雑草を抜くのは彼の仕事だ。 It's his job to pull the weeds in the garden.
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