Illustration: In a home dining room, someone lifts a hot iron pot from a polished wooden table and discovers a dark scorched ring beneath it. The surrounding surface remains smooth and carefully maintained, making the new damage conspicuous. Their shoulders rise and their mouth tightens as they stare at the mark.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

損そこなう

sokonau

to harm, to damage

Example sentences

  1. 働はたらきすぎで彼女かのじょは健康けんこうを損そこなった。

    Overwork cost her health.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしは彼かれの損そこなわれた名声めいせいを取とり戻もどそうとした。

    I tried to repair his damaged prestige.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 小ちいさなあざは彼女かのじょの美うつくしさを少すこしも損そこなわなかった。

    The tiny birthmark took nothing from her loveliness.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 損

  • 損damage; lossOnソンKunそこなう・そこなう・そこねる

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