Illustration: In a small apartment kitchen, a home baker sits slumped beside several visibly failed sponge cakes and a collapsed attempt at elaborate decoration. Still wearing a flour-covered apron, they dig an enormous serving spoon straight into the ruined cake, ignoring the clean dessert plate beside them.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

やけ

yake

desperation, self-abandonment

Example sentences

  1. 実みのところ、彼女かのじょはやけになって、有あり金がねをみんな人にんにやってしまったのだ。

    To tell the truth, she gave away all her money to others in desperation.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ストレスでやけ食ぐいをされる方ほうも多おおいと思おもいます。

    I think there are many who binge eat from stress.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. しかし、その応援おうえんぶりは、ヤケ気味ぎみに、かえって激はげしくなった。

    However, their cheering grew even more intense, almost to the point of desperation.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

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