Illustration: Two walkers shelter beneath the shallow eaves of a closed neighborhood shop during a sudden downpour. They have drawn their feet onto the narrow dry strip and hold a folded shopping bag over a small gap where rain blows sideways.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

凌しのぐ

shinogu

to endure, to stave off

Example sentences

  1. その小屋こやはどうにか雨露うろをしのげた。

    The hut kept the rain and dew out after a fashion.

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  2. この金かねで何なんとか1ヶ月かげつはしのげる。

    The money will carry us for about a month.

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  3. 猛暑もうしょをどうしのいでいますか。

    How are you keeping off this intense heat?

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Kanji in 凌

  • 凌endure; keep (rain)outOnリョウKunしのぐ

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