Illustration: In a rented vegetable allotment, an older gardener tips mature compost from a bucket into a shallow planting bed while a younger helper works it into the earth with a hand fork. The fresh compost forms a dark, crumbly layer across the paler soil.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

肥こやす

koyasu

to enrich, to fertilize

私腹を肥やす means to enrich oneself. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 痩やせた土地とちを肥こやす

    to fertilize the sterile land

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 彼かれは私腹しふくを肥こやすのに余念よねんがない。

    He is always busy feathering his own nest.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私腹しふくを肥こやす

    to line one’s pockets

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 肥

  • 肥fertilizer; get fatOnヒKunこえる・こえ・こやす

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