Illustration: A small agricultural reservoir above a Japanese village has dwindled to a shallow puddle in its deepest hollow. Broad cracked mud and successive water stains on the retaining wall reveal how much water has disappeared.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

枯こ渇かつ

kokatsu

to be depleted

Commonly used of resources. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. しかし近年きんねん、国産こくさんのハゼノキは減少げんしょうし既すでに入手にゅうしゅが困難こんなんになりつつあり、将来的しょうらいてきな資源しげんの枯渇こかつが懸念けねんされている。

    However, it is becoming harder to gain hazenoki produced in Japan, and is believed that the resource will dry up in the future.

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

  2. その背景はいけいには長引ながびく戦争せんそうの結果けっか、日本にっぽんの人的資源じんてきしげんが枯渇こかつし、植民地しょくみんちに頼たよらざるをえなくなったという事情じじょうがあった。

    The background of this movement was that a prolonged war caused the Japanese human resources to be exhausted and that Japan had no choice but to rely on the colonies.

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

  3. しかし、沿岸鯨類資源えんがんくじらるいしげんの枯渇こかつから沖合おきあい・遠洋えんようへと漁場ぎょじょうが移動いどうするにつれ、冷蔵冷凍技術れいぞうれいとうぎじゅつがない時代じだいには持もち帰かえりが困難こんなんとなり、徐々じょじょに食用しょくようとすることができなくなっていった。

    However, as whale resources along the coasts became depleted and sites of whaling changed to off the coasts or in remote sea areas, it became difficult to bring back caught whales in the ages when no cold storage nor freezing technology was available, making it gradually impossible to eat the meat.

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

Kanji in 枯渇

  • 枯wither; dieOnコKunかれる・からす
  • 渇thirst; dry upOnカツKunかわく

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