せんし
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. death in battle
Pitch accent
せ
んし
Composed of
war; battle; match; game; competition
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
person killed in action; the war dead
Examples (11 in total)
He was slain in battle.
He is believed to have been killed in action.
Our son was killed in the war.
He died fighting in the Vietnam War.
Both of Tom's sons died in the war.
A lot of people were killed in World War II.
If my father had not been killed in the war, he would be over sixty years old now.
News of her son's death in battle drove her mad.
My grandfather was killed in World War II.
Luckily, Dick's father was not killed in the war.
The governor dedicated the memorial to the soldiers who died in the war.