Illustration: In a family kitchen, a child reaches toward the bare metal side of a kettle that has just boiled. A grandparent intercepts the reaching hand with an open palm and points firmly at the steam escaping from the spout. Their expression is serious and instructive rather than angry.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

戒いましめる

imashimeru

to warn against

Example sentences

  1. なお肉食にくしょくについてはそれを戒いましめつつも、次つぎのようにも書記かきしるさせている。

    While it warns against eating meat, it also says as follows.

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

  2. 勝者しょうしゃに驕おごりが生しょうじることを戒いましめた言葉ことば。

    It is a warning for winners who would become arrogant.

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

  3. 親鸞しんらんはこの事態じたいを憂慮ゆうりょして「くすりあればとて毒どくをこのむべからず」と戒いましめている。

    Shinran worried about it and warned against it, saying, 'You should not indulge yourself in poison, even if you have medicine.'

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

Kanji in 戒

  • 戒commandmentOnカイKunいましめる

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