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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

酷こく使し

kokushi

to overwork, to overuse

Example sentences

  1. そんなに体からだを酷使こくししちゃダメだよ。

    You shouldn’t overwork your body so much.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. それに比くらべて禅宗ぜんしゅうの精進料理しょうじんりょうりは、菜食さいしょくであるが、味あじがしっかりとしており、身体しんたいを酷使こくしして塩分えんぶんを欲ほっする武士ぶしや庶民しょみんにも満足まんぞくのいく濃度のうどの味付あじつけがなされていた。

    On the contrary, Shojin ryori of the Zen sect, although their ingredients were vegetable in origin, had strong taste and warriors and ordinary people who had to drive themselves and needed to take supplemental salt, were satisfied with such strong tastes.

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

  3. 現代人げんだいじんは目めを日々ひび酷使こくししています。

    People today overuse their eyes every day.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 酷使

  • 酷cruel; severeOnコクKunひどい
  • 使use; send on a missionOnシKunつかう・つかい

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