Word · 単語
流す
Reading ながす
to drain
- 1 to drain, to pour, to run, to let flow, to flush, to shed (blood, tears), to spill
- 2 to float (e.g. logs down a river), to set adrift
- 3 to wash away, to carry away, to sweep away
- 4 to broadcast, to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker), to send (electricity through a wire)
- 5 to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.), to spread, to distribute
- 6 to cruise (of a taxi), to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.), to go from place to place
- 7 to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.), to call off, to reject (e.g. a bill)
- 8 to forfeit (a pawn)
- 9 to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming), to do with ease, to do effortlessly
- 10 to exile, to banish
- 11 to hit (the ball) to the opposite field
- 12 to do inattentively, to do without concentrating, to put little effort into doing — after the -masu stem of a verb
- 13 to cause a miscarriage, to abort
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例文 · examples
電線は電気を流す。
Wires carry electricity.
sense 4 · to broadcast
浮き名を流したものだ。
His romance was the talk of the town.
sense 5 · to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.)
勢いに流されているんですよ。
You are carried along with the slide.
sense 3 · to wash away
ナポレオンはセントヘレナ島へ流された。
Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.
sense 10 · to exile
彼女は彼の死にそら涙を流した。
She shed crocodile tears over his death.
sense 1 · to drain