潰す – Vocabulary details

潰つぶす

Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)

1. to smash; to crush; to flatten

それを両りょう手てで挟はさんでとりあえず潰つぶしておいた。For the time being, I squashed it between my hands.

2. to shut down; to put out of business; to force (a company) to close up shop

僕ぼくたちは、この学がっ校こうを潰つぶさせたりはしない。We won't let them shut this school down.

3. to wreck; to break; to block; to thwart

4. to butcher; to slaughter; to kill (livestock, for food)

昔むかしは家いえで鶏にわとりを潰つぶして食たべていた。In the old days, people slaughtered chickens at home and ate them.

5. to kill (time); to while away (the time); to use up (one's time)

このままここで時じ間かん潰つぶそう。Let's just kill time here like this.

6. to waste (e.g. talents)

crush

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ぶす

to crush; to squash; to flatten; to quash (a plan, opposition, etc.); to crush; to suppress

to (hit and) crush; to smash; to squash; to defeat soundly; to crush (an opponent, hopes, etc.)

to kill time

空あき缶かんを潰つぶしてから捨すてる。

I crush empty cans before throwing them away.

このままここで時じ間かん潰つぶそう。

Let's just kill time here like this.

潰つぶしても潰つぶしてもいつの間まにか湧わいてくる。

No matter how many I squash, they keep breeding before I know it.

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