Illustration: From a small island pier, a grandmother watches a passenger boat recede across the harbor. Her grandchild stands at the stern, still waving vigorously although the boat has already become small against the widening water.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

遠とおざかる

toozakaru

to move away, to recede

Example sentences

船ふねは岸壁がんぺきからしだいに遠とおざかって行いった。
The boat moved slowly away from the quay.
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彼かれは政治せいじから遠とおざかった。
He distanced himself from politics.
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暗闇くらやみの中なか、俺おれは遠とおざかる後姿うしろすがたに必死ひっしに手てを伸のばす。
In the darkness, I frantically reach out towards the receding figure.
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Kanji in 遠

遠distant; farOnエン・オンKunとおい

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