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.