Illustration: At a low outdoor washing basin in a family courtyard, a child presses an upside-down plastic bowl beneath clear water with an open palm. The bowl's rim and most of its dome are already below the waterline, and trapped air escapes in a cluster of bubbles.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

沈しずめる

shizumeru

to sink, to submerge

Used when causing something to sink. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれらは敵てきの船ふねを１０せき沈しずめた。

    They sank ten enemy ships.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 弥五郎やごろうは2本ほんの大木たいぼくを船ふねに乗のせるために船ふねを沈しずめる方法ほうほうを用もちいた。

    Yagoro deliberately sank the ship in order to put the two huge timbers onto it.

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

  3. 豆腐とうふはかつては店頭てんとうで毎日まいにちつくられ、柔やわらかいので崩くずれないように水槽すいそうの中なかに沈しずめて売うられるものであった。

    Tofu used to be made every day in a shop, and due to its softness it was sold immersed in a water tank to prevent it from breaking apart.

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

Kanji in 沈

  • 沈sink; be submergedOnチン・ジンKunしずむ・しずめる

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