沈める – Vocabulary details

沈しずめる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge

2. to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair)

3. to floor (an opponent)

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to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)

彼かれらは敵てきの船ふねを１０せき沈しずめた。

They sank ten enemy ships.

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