流ながす
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
1. to drain; to pour; to run; to let flow; to flush; to shed (blood, tears); to spill
I thought that only children shed tears.
2. to float (e.g. logs down a river); to set adrift
3. to wash away; to carry away; to sweep away
The waves washed away the sandcastle.
4. to broadcast; to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker); to send (electricity through a wire)
Shall I play some music?
5. to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.); to spread; to distribute
But it's bad to spread misinformation.
Verb (5-dan, す, intransitive)
6. to cruise (of a taxi); to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.); to go from place to place
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
7. to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.); to call off; to reject (e.g. a bill)
8. to forfeit (a pawn)
Verb (5-dan, す, intransitive)
9. to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming); to do with ease; to do effortlessly
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
10. to exile; to banish
11. to hit (the ball) to the opposite field
Verb (5-dan, す)
12. to do inattentively; to do without concentrating; to put little effort into doing
after the -masu stem of a verb
It's a hassle, but I'm not going to just go through the motions.
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
13. to cause a miscarriage; to abort
Kanji used
current (in a fluid)
Pitch accent
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Top 1200
Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)
to shed blood
Examples (29 in total)
Shall I play some music?
Run as strong a current through it as you can!
I've decided to not be swayed by the trends.
Wires carry electricity.
Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.
But it's bad to spread misinformation.
And then another video is played.
It happens all the time that I break out in a cold sweat.
Newspapers distribute information to the public.
The bridge was washed away by the flood.
The rain washed away the soil.
I will circulate the information subtly.
I thought that only children shed tears.
Don't forget to flush the toilet.
The waves washed away the sandcastle.
Let's loosely tie the hair and sweep it to the side.
Part of the railway track was washed away by the heavy rain.
The river carries the fallen leaves away.
Several houses were carried away by the great flood.
It's a hassle, but I'm not going to just go through the motions.
The rain washed the mud off the road.
Several bridges have been damaged or swept away.
They are just spreading that kind of information as a media strategy.
Therefore, it was written that it is best to brush it off lightly when asked.
I glance at the request forms posted on the bulletin board.
They grumble about this and that behind the scenes, but in the end they get used to it and just go with the flow.
The police charged him with leaking information to a neighboring country.
To wipe away the sweat we had shed, we headed to the town square.
He decided to put the murder trial first in the evening news.