そこねる – Vocabulary details

そこねる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to harm; to hurt; to injure; to wreck

Auxiliary verb

2. to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

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to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings

to miss getting on (e.g. a plane)

to miss seeing

トムからの電でん話わを取とりそこねた。

I'd missed a call from Tom.

俺おれたち二ふた人りとも、バスに乗のりそこねそうだった。

We both almost missed the bus.

その大おおきな醜みにくい木きがその家いえの美び観かんをそこねている。

The big ugly tree destroys the beauty of the house.

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