Illustration: Outside a neighborhood bicycle shop, a parent loosens a bicycle's seat clamp and presses the saddle farther down into its frame. Their hands visibly control both the clamp and the descending saddle, with an exposed clean band on the seatpost showing its previous height.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

下さげる

sageru

to lower, to reduce

Example sentences

ラジオの音おとを下さげてくれませんか。
Could you turn down the radio?
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頭あたまを下さげろ！
Duck!
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彼かれは深々ふかぶかと頭あたまを下さげた。
He bent his head low.
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Kanji in 下

下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・さげる

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