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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

下した火び

shitabi

waning, decline

Usually appears as 下火になる. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 事件後鉱毒反対運動じけんごこうどくはんたいうんどうが下火したびになりました。

    The movement against the copper poisoning died down after the Kawamata Incident.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 長ながい論争ろんそうが繰くり広ひろげられたが、結局明確けっきょくめいかくな結論けつろんは出でないまま論争ろんそうは下火したびになり、現在げんざいではほとんど行おこなわれていない。

    It was a long dispute but it cooled down with no clear conclusion and is virtually nonexistent now.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. これ以降いこうの時代じだいは、国策こくさくである銅どうの増産ぞうさんに協力きょうりょくしない者ものは非国民ひこくみんであるという主張しゅちょうがされるようになり、鉱毒反対運動こうどくはんたいうんどうは一時いちじ下火したびになった。

    After that, people came to say that persons who did not cooperate with the copper production were betrayers of the country, because the increase production was demanded as a national policy, therefore the movement against the mining pollution temporarily subsided.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 下火

  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・もと
  • 火fireOnカKunひ・ほ-

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