Results, to reduce
- 縮める☆【ちぢめる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to shorten; to reduce; to condense; to shrink
- to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle
- to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs); to duck (one's head)
- 切り下げる☆【きりさげる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to cut down; to prune; to reduce; to cut and hang down; to cut shorter
- to round down (e.g. fraction)
- 引き下げる☆【ひきさげる】引下げる☆irr. Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to pull down; to lower; to reduce; to withdraw
- 攻め落とす【せめおとす】攻め落す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to take by storm (e.g. a castle); to assault; to capture; to reduce
- 詰める☆【つめる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to stuff into; to jam; to cram; to pack; to fill; to plug; to stop up
ichidan verb / transitive / intransitive verb:
- to shorten; to move closer together
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to reduce (spending); to conserve
ichidan verb / transitive / intransitive verb:
- to focus intently on; to strain oneself to do - usu. as 根を詰める ➜ 根を詰める
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to work out (details)
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to be on duty; to be stationed
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to corner (esp. an opponent's king in shogi); to trap; to checkmate
- to cut off (one's finger as an act of apology); to catch (one's finger in a door, etc.) - the meaning "to catch one's finger" is predominantly used in Kansai ➜ 指を詰める
suffix / ichidan verb:
- to continue ...; to keep doing ... without a break
- to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly
- to force someone into a difficult situation by ...
私がスーツケースに荷物を詰めるのを手伝ってくれませんか。 Will you help me pack my suitcase?
彼女は私が荷物をスーツケースに詰めるのを手伝ってくれた。 She helped me pack my suitcase.
息を詰めることにより自殺ができない。 You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
- 下げる★【さげる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to hang; to suspend; to wear (e.g. decoration)
- to lower; to reduce; to bring down
- to demote; to move back; to pull back
- to clear (plates); to remove (food, etc. from table or altar)
彼らは、その値を下げることに同意しなかった。 They did not agree to bring down the price.
- 切る★【きる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to cut; to cut through; to perform (surgery)
- to sever (connections, ties) ➜ 縁を切る
- to turn off (e.g. the light)
- to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to disconnect ➜ 電話を切る
- to punch (a ticket); to tear off (a stub)
- to open (something sealed)
- to start
- to set (a limit); to do (something) in less or within a certain time; to issue (stamps, vouchers, etc.)
- to reduce; to decrease; to discount ➜ 値切る
- to shake off (water, etc.); to let drip-dry; to let drain
- to cross; to traverse
- to criticize sharply
- to act decisively; to do (something noticeable); to go first; to make (certain facial expressions, in kabuki)
- to turn (vehicle, steering wheel, etc.)
- to curl (a ball); to bend; to cut
- to shuffle (cards)
- to discard a tile - Mahjong term
- to dismiss; to sack; to let go; to expulse; to excommunicate
- to dig (a groove); to cut (a stencil, on a mimeograph)
- to trump ➜ 切り札
- to cut (the connection between two groups) (in go)
- to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking a metal against stone) - also written as 鑽る
- to draw (a shape) in the air (with a sword, etc.)
auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:
- to finish; to complete - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 疲れきる
２．大根は拍子木に切る。 2. Cut the daikon into long sticks.
家を出る前にはガスのスイッチを切ることを忘れないでください。 Don't forget to turn off the gas before you leave the house.
３．電話をかけても、アナウンス等に従って操作したりせず、すぐに切ること。 3. If you do phone then hang up immediately, without following any instructions given.
いったん封を切るとそのテープは返品できません。 Once you break the seal, you can't return the tape.
- 減ずる【げんずる】 Inflection
ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:
- to decrease; to be reduced; to grow less; to abate
ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:
- to reduce; to lessen; to cut down; to mitigate; to diminish
- to subtract; to deduct; to take off
- 減じる【げんじる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to decrease; to be reduced; to grow less; to abate
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to reduce; to lessen; to cut down; to mitigate; to diminish
- to subtract; to deduct; to take off
周波数の平均値は振幅の増大にしたがって減じる。 The mean value of the frequency decreases with increasing amplitude.
- 落とす☆【おとす】落す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
- to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
- to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
- to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
- to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
- to download; to copy from a computer to another medium - IT term
- to make someone swoon (judo) - Martial Arts term
- to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
- to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)
車の速度を落とす装置（ハンプや狭さく）について、意見があったら書いてください。 If you have any opinions concerning traffic calming devices (humps, curb extensions, etc.) please write them.
しみをこすり落とすことができなかった。 I couldn't scrub the stain out.
日本語のソフトを落とすコツ・いいサイトありませんか？ Are there any knacks, or good sites, for downloading Japanese software?
- 削る☆【けずる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to erode
- to cut down (budget, expenses, salary, etc.); to curtail; to reduce
- to delete; to erase; to remove; to cross out; to strike out
- 陥れる【おとしいれる】落とし入れる・落し入れる・おとし入れる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime) - usu. 陥れる
- to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to reduce - usu. 陥れる
- to drop (something) into - orig. meaning; usu. 落とし入れる
この無限の空間に漂う永遠の沈黙が私を恐怖に陥れる。 The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
- 切り詰める☆【きりつめる】切りつめる・切詰める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to shorten; to cut short; to trim
- to cut down on; to reduce; to economize; to economise
- 削ぐ【そぐ】殺ぐ Inflection
godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:
- to chip (off); to shave (off); to slice (off); to sharpen
- to dampen (e.g. enthusiasm); to discourage; to weaken; to reduce - usually written using kana alone
- 緩める☆【ゆるめる】弛める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to loosen; to slacken Antonym: 締める
- to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relieve (tension)
- to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions); to loosen (control)
- to reduce (speed); to slow down; to ease up
- to make more gradual (of a slope)
- 約する【やくする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.) / transitive:
- to promise
- to abridge; to simplify; to shorten
- to reduce - Mathematics term
- 開く☆【ひらく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb / transitive:
- to open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack
- to bloom; to unfold; to spread out
- to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)
- to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to hold (meeting, etc.); to give; to open
- to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.); to open (a new business); to set up; to establish; to start
- to open (ports, borders, etc.)
- to open (an account)
- to open up (new land, path, etc.); to clear; to develop ➜ 拓く
- to open (a file, etc.) - IT term
- to extract (root); to reduce (equation) - Mathematics term
- to cut open (fish) - as 魚を開く - Food term
- to change (kanji into hiragana)
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to flare (e.g. skirt)
- to slacken (into a poor posture) - as 体が開く, 肩が開く, etc. - Sports term
先週、私達は舞踏会を開きました。 We gave a ball last week.
庭のバラの木のつぼみが少しずつ開き始める。 Little by little, the buds on the rosebush in my garden begin to open.
私達はその店が開くまでしばらく待つより仕方がなかった。 We had no choice but to wait for a while until the store opened.
- 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.
- 痩せる☆【やせる】痩るirr.・瘠せる・瘠るirr.・瘦せるold Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to slim
- to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile
彼女はやせるためのいろいろな方法を試した。 She has tried various methods of slimming down.
- 焼き払う【やきはらう】焼きはらう・焼払う Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to burn down (to the ground); to clear away by burning; to reduce to ashes; to burn off
- 手控える☆【てびかえる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to hang (hold) back; to hold off; to refrain; to reduce or cut back on
- to jot down a note
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