Illustration: On a Japanese apartment balcony, a once-flowering potted plant hangs over its support stake with shriveled leaves and a collapsed, dry flower head. Several curled leaves have fallen onto the soil, and one crumbles as its owner gently touches it.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

枯かれる

kareru

to wither

Example sentences

その花はなは水みずがないために枯かれた。
The flower died for lack of water.
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作物さくもつは枯かれた。
The crops have withered.
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冬ふゆには枯かれる植物しょくぶつもある。
Some plants perish in winter.
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Kanji in 枯

枯wither; dieOnコKunかれる・からす

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