Illustration: In a small neighborhood bakery after an exceptionally demanding production run, two workers sit heavily on flour sacks beside racks packed with finished bread. One has let a dough scraper slip from a limp hand; the other rests both forearms on their knees, too drained to remove an apron.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

疲ひ弊へい

hihei

to become exhausted

Example sentences

  1. 長期ちょうきに及およぶ戦たたかいで忠常ただつねの軍ぐんは疲弊ひへいしていた。

    As a result of long battle, the army of Tadatsune was war-worn.

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

  2. 幕府方ばくふがたも連続れんぞくした戦闘せんとうに疲弊ひへいしたため、追撃ついげきを行おこなわなかった。

    The bakufu side, also exhausted with a series of battles, did not chase them.

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

  3. だが、幕府軍ばくふぐんは大軍たいぐんで新手あらてを次々繰つぎつぎくり出だし、和田勢わだぜいは疲弊ひへいし、次第しだいに数かずを減へらした。

    However the army of bakufu was a large force and sent out fresh troops one after another, and army of Wada reduced the number gradually from exhaustion.

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

Kanji in 疲弊

  • 疲exhausted; tireOnヒKunつかれる・つからす
  • 弊abuse; evilOnヘイ

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