げき
Meanings
Noun
1. blow; shock; strike; damage
2. batting
Kanji used
strike
fire a gun
Pitch accent
げき
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Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
serious damage; injury or loss; heavy blow
game with many hits
carrier strike group; CSG
Examples (8 in total)
Her death is a blow to my feelings.
Her mother's death was a blow to the little girl.
It was a great blow to us.
The strong yen was a fatal blow to the company.
It proved to be the deathblow to their plan.
Workers are taking a financial beating in the employment crisis.
The East Asian economies were hit hard by energy price increases.
Fortune 500 companies were the hardest hit by recent legislation.