Illustration: At a home dining table fitted with an electric griddle, a cook deliberately turns a broad okonomiyaki using two spatulas. The pancake is caught halfway through the turn, its browned underside coming upward while the pale cabbage surface rotates toward the hot plate.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ひっくり返かえす

hikkurikaesu

to turn over, to turn upside down

Example sentences

彼かれはテーブルをひっくり返かえした。
He turned the table upside down.
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レコードが終おわりました。反対側はんたいがわにひっくり返かえしなさい。
The record is finished. Turn it over to the other side.
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外そとはバケツをひっくり返かえしたような雨あめです。
It’s raining buckets outside.
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Kanji in 返

返returnOnヘンKunかえす・かえる

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