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Beyond N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

穢けがれる

kegareru

to be defiled, to be tainted

For ordinary dirt, 汚れる is read よごれる. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 名なが穢けがれるくらいなら、彼かれはむしろ死しを選えらぶ。

    He would rather die than disgrace himself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 一方いっぽう、在野ざいやの学者がくしゃである藤原惺窩ふじわらせいかなどは秀次ひでつぐを低ひくく評価ひょうかし、「学問がくもんが穢けがれる」と相手あいてにしなかったと言いわれている。

    Meanwhile, independent scholars such as Seika Fujiwara are said to have thought little of Hidetsugu and refused to deal with him, saying, “Scholarship would be tainted.”

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

  3. 穢けがれたものは、それに物理的ぶつりてきまたは精神的せいしんてきに触ふれることによって穢けがれが「伝染でんせん」すると見みなされている。

    Impure things are thought to pass on their impurity through physical or mental contact.

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

Kanji in 穢

  • 穢dirtyOnアイ・エ・ワイKunけがす・けがれ・けがれる

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