Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
1. to let fly; to make fly; to send flying; to blow off (e.g. in the wind); to launch; to fire; to hurl; to shoot
2. to skip over; to leave out; to omit; to drop (e.g. a stitch)
3. to run fast; to drive fast; to gallop
4. to spray; to splash; to spatter
5. to say without reservation; to call out (e.g. a jeer); to rattle off (e.g. a joke)
6. to spread (e.g. a rumour); to circulate; to send out (a message); to issue (e.g. an appeal)
7. to transfer (to a less important post); to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch); to demote
8. to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter)
9. to get rid of; to burn off (alcohol)
10. to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre)
Auxiliary verb (5-dan, す)
11. to do vigorously; to do roughly; to do energetically
Kanji used
fly
Pitch accent
ばす
Top 1800
Used in vocabulary (35 in total)
to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big
to thrust away; to send flying
to flick off; to give (someone) the flick; to send (something) flying; to hit (a person); to knock down
Examples (11 in total)
I skipped the introduction.
Skip the boring chapters.
The roof was torn off due to the strong winds.
We let the bird fly.
She had her hat blown off by the wind.
Let's bypass the protection circuit.
We skipped his turn on purpose.
I skipped the first few pages of the book.
The Wright brothers succeeded in flying an airplane driven by an engine.
I skipped a line when I was reading.
On Sunday we were on the beach flying a kite.