Illustration: At a community-center craft gathering, an enthusiastic resident demonstrates how to fold a distinctive paper frog to a neighbor. Immediately beside them, someone who has already learned the method now teaches it to two newcomers, their hands repeating the same fold.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

広ひろめる

hiromeru

to spread, to popularize

Example sentences

福沢諭吉ふくさわゆきちは日本にっぽんに西洋思想せいようしそうを広ひろめた。
Yukichi Fukuzawa introduced Western ideas into Japan.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれらはキリストの福音ふくいんを全世界ぜんせかいに広ひろめた。
They spread the Gospel all over the world.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれらはそのうわさを広ひろめた。
They spread the rumor abroad.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 広

広wide; broadOnコウKunひろい・ひろまる・ひろめる

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