Illustration: At a summer kitchen table, a child watches a parent add clear water to a glass pitcher of overly strong barley tea. Dark tea remains near the bottom while pale swirls spread outward from the incoming stream, visibly weakening the drink throughout the pitcher.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

薄うすまる

usumaru

to weaken, to fade

Example sentences

  1. そのため百姓ひゃくしょうが差別的さべつてきな用語ようごであるという認識にんしきは薄うすまってきている。

    Thus, there is less recognition that the term "hyakusho" is a discriminatory term.

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

  2. その後ご、貴族文化きぞくぶんかは中国的ちゅうごくてきな要素ようそが薄うすまり、日本独自にっぽんどくじの発達はったつをとげていった。

    Later, Chinese elements in the noble culture faded, upon which a uniquely Japanese culture emerged.

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

  3. しかし、織田信長おだのぶなが・豊臣秀吉とよとみひでよしの天下統一てんかとういつにより一転いってんして集権化しゅうけんかへと向むかい、戦国大名せんごくだいみょうの独立性どくりつせいは薄うすまっていく。

    However, the unification of the nation by Nobunaga ODA and Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI brought the nation under centralized control, making activities by sengoku period daimyo less independent.

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

Kanji in 薄

  • 薄thin; weakOnハクKunうすい・うす-・うすめる

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