見返す – Vocabulary details

見み返かえす

Meanings

Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)

1. to look (stare) back at (someone)

その言こと葉ばに俺おれは驚おどろいて、彼かの女じょを見み返かえす。I was surprised by those words and looked back at her.

2. to look at again; to re-examine

きっと俺おれはもう、その映えい画がを見み返かえすことはできない。I probably won't ever be able to watch that movie again.

3. to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to put a person to shame; to get one's own back

しかし、なぜか今いまは、見み返かえしてやるといった気き持もちにはならない。However, for some reason, I don't feel like getting my own back now.

Verb (5-dan, す, intransitive)

4. to look back (behind oneself)

そして、彼かれはもう一いっ回かい歩あるき出だしたかと思おもいきや、また後うしろを見み返かえした。And just when I thought he had started walking again, he looked back behind him once more.

Kanji used

見

see

返

return something

Pitch accent

み

かえす

み

か

えす

Conjugations...Used in: 2236

Composed of

見み

looking; viewing; (please) try (to)

返かえす

to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)

Used in vocabulary (1 in total)

じっと見み返かえす

to gaze back at

Examples (11 in total)

見み返かえしてやろうと思おもった。

I thought I would get my own back.

思おもわず相あい手てを見み返かえした。

I couldn't help but look back at the other person.

もう一いち度どメモを見み返かえしながら、頭あたまを回かい転てんさせる。

Looking over my notes once more, I get my brain working.

あいつを見み返かえすためなら、なんだって！

Anything, if it means proving that guy wrong!

その言こと葉ばに俺おれは驚おどろいて、彼かの女じょを見み返かえす。

I was surprised by those words and looked back at her.

彼かれはただ、不ふ思し議ぎそうに彼かの女じょを見み返かえしているだけだった。

He was simply looking back at her with a puzzled expression.

朝あさから何なん度ども見み返かえしてきたが、もちろん内ない容ようは変かわらない。

I have looked back at it many times since morning, but of course the content has not changed.

しかし、なぜか今いまは、見み返かえしてやるといった気き持もちにはならない。

However, for some reason, I don't feel like getting my own back now.

きっと俺おれはもう、その映えい画がを見み返かえすことはできない。

I probably won't ever be able to watch that movie again.

次つぎのテストでは絶ぜっ対たい見み返かえしてやると、本ほん気きで心こころに誓ちかう。

I swear in all seriousness that I'll show them on the next test.

そして、彼かれはもう一いっ回かい歩あるき出だしたかと思おもいきや、また後うしろを見み返かえした。