Illustration: At a vegetable plot behind a rural Japanese house, a wild boar ploughs its snout through a carefully tended row of sweet potatoes. Uprooted vines, scattered tubers, snapped bamboo supports, and deep hoof marks spread behind it. An intact neighboring row makes the destruction easy to compare.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

荒あらす

arasu

to damage, to devastate

Example sentences

庭にわを荒あらしたのは誰だれだ。
Who destroyed the garden?
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その国くには長ながい戦争せんそうによって荒あらされていた。
The country had been devastated by long war.
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ストレスが胃いの粘膜ねんまくを荒あらす原因げんいんのひとつは次つぎのように考かんがえられています。
The following is thought to be one of the reasons stress damages the stomach’s mucous membrane.
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Kanji in 荒

荒laid waste; roughOnコウKunあらす・あれる・あらい

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