けがす – Vocabulary details

けがす

Meanings

Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)

1. to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to make dirty; to stain

そのハンカチを汚よごさないで！Don't get that handkerchief dirty!

2. to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor; to defile

esp. けがす

だが勝しょう負ぶを汚けがすような真ま似ねはすんな。But don't do anything that would taint the match.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

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Conjugations...Used in: 76

Used in vocabulary (7 in total)

晩ばん節せつをけがす

to ruin one's reputation in later life; to tarnish one's twilight years

なをけがす

to shame the name (of); to blot the reputation (of)

ばんせつをけがす

to ruin one's reputation in later life; to tarnish one's twilight years

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Examples (14 in total)

もしけがしちゃってたら、ごめんな。

I'm sorry if I got it dirty.

部へ屋やをけがしてすまない。

I'm sorry for making the room dirty.

そのハンカチをけがさないで！

Don't get that handkerchief dirty!

家か名めいをけがすわけにはいかない。

I can't bring shame on the family name.

トムね、ズボンをけがしちゃったの。

Tom got his pants dirty.

いくつかの工こう場じょうは環かん境きょうをけがす。

Some factories pollute the environment.

学がっ校こうの名めい誉よをけがしてはいけない。

You mustn't disgrace the school's good name.

だが勝しょう負ぶをけがすような真ま似ねはすんな。

But don't do anything that would taint the match.

彼かれはシャツをインクのしみでけがした。

He blotted his shirt with ink spots.

本ほんは後あとで返かえすんだから、けがしたりするなよお。

The book has to go back later, so don't go getting it dirty, okay?

工こう場じょうの廃はい棄き物ぶつが私わたし達たちの川かわをけがすことがある。

Factory waste sometimes pollutes our rivers.

部へ屋やをけがさないように、シートみたいのも買かってきた。

I also bought something like a sheet so that I wouldn't dirty the room.

写しゃ真しんが暴ばく露ろされた後あとで女じょ優ゆうの清せい純じゅんなイメージがけがされた。

After the pictures were revealed, the actress' clean image was tainted.

彼かれはインクカートリッジを交こう換かんしていて白しろいシャツをけがした。

He soiled his white shirt when he changed the ink cartridge.

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Used in vocabulary (7 in total)

Examples (14 in total)