Illustration: Strong afternoon sunlight enters a Japanese apartment through a balcony window, making a child at a low table squint and shield their eyes. A parent draws a sheer curtain across the window.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

和やわらげる

yawarageru

to ease, to soften

Example sentences

  1. その薬くすりは彼かれの苦痛くつうを和やわらげた。

    The medicine decreased his pain.

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  2. 何なにか頭痛ずつうをやわらげるものを持もっていますか。

    Do you have anything to relieve a headache?

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  3. この薬くすりは筋肉痛きんにくつうを和やわらげる。

    This medicine helps relieve muscle pain.

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Kanji in 和

  • 和harmony; Japanese styleOnワ・オ・カKunやわらぐ・やわらげる・なごむ

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