損ねる – Vocabulary details

損そこねる

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)

harmful loss

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

to miss seeing

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

トムからの電でん話わを取とり損そこねた。

I'd missed a call from Tom.

俺おれたち二ふた人りとも、バスに乗のり損そこねそうだった。

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損そこねている。

The big ugly tree destroys the beauty of the house.

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