Illustration: At a Japanese apartment kitchen counter, someone lifts a forgotten mandarin from the bottom of a fruit basket using kitchen tongs. Its skin has collapsed around a soft, sunken patch, fuzzy mold spreads over one side, and a little juice has leaked onto the basket liner.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

腐くさる

kusaru

to rot, to go bad

Example sentences

これらのオレンジは腐くさっている。
These oranges have gone bad.
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牛乳ぎゅうにゅうが腐くさった。
The milk has gone bad.
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その果物くだものは腐くさった。
The fruit went bad.
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Kanji in 腐

腐rot; decayOnフKunくさる・くされる・くされ

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