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奪うばう
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, う, transitive)
1. to take (by force); to take away; to snatch; to steal; to rob (someone) of; to dispossess of; to deprive of; to usurp
It is not something that can be taken away by someone.
2. to absorb (one's attention); to fascinate; to captivate; to charm; to dazzle
as 心を〜, 目を〜, etc.
One's attention is captivated by the scene before one's eyes.
Alt. forms
奪うばう
98%
うばう
1%
Kanji used
奪
steal (by force)
Pitch accent
う
ば
う
う
ばう
Top 900
Conjugations...Used in: 5448
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
to take someone's life; to kill someone
to dazzle one's eyes; to hold one's gaze; to fascinate; to captivate
to be thoroughly attracted by; to be completely fascinated by
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Examples (48 in total)
The king was deprived of his power.
She was robbed of her purse.
Seize by force, and subjugate by force.
I was robbed of no more than 1,000 yen.
It is not something that can be taken away by someone.
One's attention is captivated by the scene before one's eyes.
They deprived me of my liberty.
Someone stole her money.
One's strength is gradually being drained away.
Please take the ball from me.
Anger deprived him of his reason.
The people deprived him of his rights.
I will take the position of department head by my own ability.
You didn't threaten someone and take it from them, did you?
Criminals are deprived of social rights.
We retook the castle the enemy had seized.
The accident took her son away from her.
Tom took everything from us.
He was robbed of all his money.
Why were 14,000 soldiers lost?
Her dress drew everyone's eyes.
The accident deprived them of their happiness.
He robbed me of my new watch.
The accident robbed him of his best friend.
I'm not trying to deprive you of your rights.
The government deprived him of all his rights.
The man robbed the traveler of his money.
When alcohol evaporates, it draws heat from the body.
He took it from her by force.
The poor old woman was robbed of her money.
His work absorbed all his energies.
The airplane has robbed travel of its poetry.
No citizen should be deprived of his rights.
This law will deprive us of our basic rights.
Gangsters robbed a bank of thousands of dollars.
No one can deprive of your human rights.
As for me, I want to be someone who gives, not just someone who takes.
At that moment, a hand reached out from the side and snatched the microphone.
The motive for the pursuit is obvious: they are trying to recover what was stolen.
The angry people deprived the king of all his power.
Those black people have long been deprived of their rights.
The new law will deprive religious minorities of their right to vote.
The next moment, that sound had captured the attention of everyone at the table.
They deprived the criminal of his rights.
The man, whose vision had been taken away, leaped far backward and escaped death.
It is probably a measure to prevent humans from taking the supplies.
The spread of television has considerably deprived us of our time for reading.
TV has robbed us of our enjoyment of conversation at dinner at home.