ケンセイ – Vocabulary details

ケンセイ

Noun

Verb (する, transitive)

1. check; keeping in check; restraint; curbing; reining in; discouraging (from doing)

お互たがいが視し線せんで牽けん制せいし合あっている。They are keeping each other in check with their gazes.

2. containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; feint operation; show of force

これは、牽けん制せいのための射しゃ撃げきだ。This is fire meant to pin the enemy down.

3. pickoff throw; holding (a runner) on base

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system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation

pickoff throw; pickoff attempt

diversionary operations

お互たがいが視し線せんでけんせいし合あっている。

They are keeping each other in check with their gazes.

これは、けんせいのための射しゃ撃げきだ。

This is fire meant to pin the enemy down.

結けっ果か的てきには、それがけんせいになったのかもしれない。

In the end, it may have served as a check.

全ぜん員いんが秘ひ密みつを握にぎり、お互たがいをけんせいしあっている。

Everyone holds a secret and keeps each other in check.

その命めい令れいに、軍ぐんは敵てきをけんせいしながらゆっくりと後こう退たいを始はじめた。

In response to that order, the army began to slowly retreat while keeping the enemy in check.

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