痩せる

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Verb

痩せる (intransitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana やせる, rōmaji yaseru)

  1. to lose weight
    • 1932, Motojirō Kajii, のんきな患者:
       (よん) () (にち) ()つともうすっかり ()せてしまった。
      Yon go nichi tatsu to mō sukkari yasete shimatta.
      He'd completely wasted away after only four or five days.
  2. for fertile land to become barren

Conjugation

Antonyms

  • (lose weight):  (ふと) (futoru),  ()える (koeru)
  • (become barren):  ()える (koeru)

References

  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
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