Illustration: On the rooftop drying area of a Japanese apartment building, a resident pulls a protective cloth completely off a broad rack of damp fabric. The newly uncovered fabric catches direct afternoon sunlight and billows in the wind, while the removed cover hangs heavily from the resident's arm.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

晒さらす

sarasu

to expose

Example sentences

彼かれは危険きけんに晒さらされていた。
He was exposed to danger.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
しかし、風雨ふううに曝さらされると薄紙うすがみは破やぶれてしまう。
Exposed to the weather, however, the thin paper used will be easily torn.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
貝殻かいがらを天日てんぴに晒さらし、数ヶ月すうかげつ～何十年なんじゅうねんもかけて風化ふうかさせる。
Expose shells to the sun for a period of between a few months and decades until weathered.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 晒

晒bleach; refineOnサイ・シKunさらす・さらし

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