Illustration: In an apartment living room, a resident kneels beside the aftermath of an overturned houseplant. The fallen pot lies empty, its plant temporarily upright in a kitchen bowl, while the resident sweeps the remaining soil into a dustpan.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

後あと始し末まつ

atoshimatsu

to deal with the aftermath

Example sentences

  1. 後始末あとしまつは自分じぶんでします。

    I’ll clean up this mess myself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また、自邸じていの三条宮さんじょうみやが焼失しょうしつした後始末あとしまつなどで、薫かおるも久ひさしく宇治うじを訪たずねていない。

    Meanwhile, Kaoru’s residence, Sanjo no Miya was burnt down, so he gets busy taking care of the aftermath, and has not visited Uji for a long time.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 京都きょうとに残のこされた宗盛むねもりは、相談そうだんもなく始はじまったクーデターに困惑こんわくしていたが後始末あとしまつをつけねばならなかった。

    Munemori, who was left in Kyoto, was troubled by the coup d’etat that had begun without first consulting him; but, he was obliged to pick up the pieces.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 後始末

  • 後behind; backOnゴ・コウKunのち・うしろ・あと
  • 始commence; beginOnシKunはじめる・はじまる
  • 末end; closeOnマツ・バツKunすえ・うら・うれ

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