仰ぐ – Vocabulary details

仰あおぐ

Meanings

Verb (5-dan, ぐ, transitive)

1. to look up (at)

どうしようかと天てん井じょうを仰あおぎそうになったときだった。It was just when I was about to look up at the ceiling, wondering what to do.

2. to look up to; to respect; to revere

彼かれを先せん生せいと仰あおぐ若わか者ものは多おおい。Many young people look up to him as their teacher.

3. to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to turn to (someone) for

いちいち私わたしに指し示じを仰あおぐ必ひつ要ようはないわ。You don't need to seek my instructions for every single thing.

4. to depend on; to rely on

5. to gulp down; to quaff; to drink

Alt. forms

仰あおぐ

92%

あおぐ

Kanji used

仰

look up to

Pitch accent

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Conjugations...Used in: 2833

Used in vocabulary (3 in total)

振ふり仰あおぐ

to look up

師しと仰あおぐ

to look up to (a person) as one's preceptor

助じょ言げんを仰あおぐ

to ask for advice

Examples (13 in total)

天てんを仰あおいで息いきを吐はく。

I look up at the sky and exhale.

ふたりに協きょう力りょくを仰あおいでみよう。

Let's try asking the two of them for cooperation.

私わたしは思おもわず天てんを仰あおいだ。

I involuntarily looked up at the sky.

どうしようかと天てん井じょうを仰あおぎそうになったときだった。

It was just when I was about to look up at the ceiling, wondering what to do.

彼かれはそう言いいながら天てんを仰あおぐ。

He looked up at the sky while saying so.

大だい事じな決けっ定ていは姉あねに判はん断だんを仰あおぐ。

For important decisions, I seek my older sister's judgment.

彼かれを先せん生せいと仰あおぐ若わか者ものは多おおい。

Many young people look up to him as their teacher.

男おとこは絶ぜつ望ぼう的てきな表ひょう情じょうで天てん井じょうを仰あおぐ。

The man looks up at the ceiling with a desperate expression.

彼かれは村むらの人ひと々びとから指し導どう者しゃと仰あおがれている。

He is revered by the villagers as their leader.

日に本ほんは原げん綿めんの供きょう給きゅうを海かい外がいに仰あおぐ。

Japan depends on overseas countries for the supply of raw cotton.

いちいち私わたしに指し示じを仰あおぐ必ひつ要ようはないわ。

You don't need to seek my instructions for every single thing.

空そらを仰あおぐと、さらに沢たく山さんの水みずが降ふりかかってきた。

When I looked up at the sky, even more water came pouring down on me.

肩かたに雪ゆきが重かさなってくるが、構かまわず、しばらく天てんを仰あおぎ続つづけた。