Meanings
Verb (1-dan, transitive)
1. to bury (e.g. in the ground)
2. to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed
3. to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to bridge (a difference, a gap); to fill (a seat, a vacant position); to fill out
4. to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends; to compensate for
5. to put cold water (in a bath)
6. to cover; to scatter something over
Kanji used
to fill up (a hole)
Pitch accent
める
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Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective
to bury in the ground
to bury (somebody) alive
Examples (8 in total)
Fill in the blanks.
They buried him in his grave.
The treasure was buried on the island.