Illustration: In a small ceramics studio, an apprentice carrying a bulky sack of clay accidentally strikes the side of a tall freestanding storage rack. The impact rocks the whole structure: one foot lifts slightly, hanging tools swing, and a row of bowls slides toward the shelf edge.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

揺ゆるがす

yurugasu

to shake, to destabilize

Example sentences

  1. とはいえ戦局せんきょくを揺ゆるがすほどの敗戦はいせんではなく、徳川軍とくがわぐんは新あらたな作戦さくせんを始動しどうした。

    However, the defeat was not serious enough to change the war situation largely, and the Tokugawa forces started taking a new strategy.

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

  2. 豊臣政権とよとみせいけんを揺ゆるがす大事件だいじけんを受うけて、豊臣秀吉とよとみひでよしは諸大名しょだいみょうに上洛じょうらくを命めいじ、事態じたいの鎮静化ちんせいかを図はかった。

    After such a big incident as having shaken the Toyotomi government occurred, Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI ordered all Daimyo to come to Kyoto to make the situation calm down.

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

  3. 「郡崩ぐんくずれ」と呼よばれるこの事件じけんは、キリスト教禁教令きょうきんきょうれいより45年ねんを経過けいかした後のちのことであり藩はんの存亡そんぼうを揺ゆるがす重大事件じゅうだいじけんとなった。

    Happening as it did 45 years after the order to ban Christianity, this "Gun kuzure", or breakdown of the region, was a serious event which destabilized the domain.

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

Kanji in 揺

  • 揺swing; shakeOnヨウKunゆれる・ゆる・ゆらぐ

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