Word · 単語
退治
Reading たいじ
extermination
- 1 extermination, elimination, eradication, destruction, suppression, subjugation, getting rid of, stamping out, wiping out, rooting out
- 2 renouncing worldly desires (in order to concentrate on Buddhist teachings)
- 3 curing (an illness)
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例文 · examples
彼はありを退治しようと思った。
He tried to get rid of the ants.
しかも初陣があのドラゴン退治！
What's more, our first battle is to defeat that dragon!
屋根裏部屋のネズミを退治しなくてはと彼はいっている。
He says he must get rid of the mice that are in the attic.
彼はシロアリを退治する計画を考案しようとした。
He tried to devise a plan for getting rid of termites.
われわれは彼の家のねずみを退治した。
We rid his house of mice.