にじむ – Vocabulary details

にじむ

Verb (5-dan, む, intransitive)

Usually written in kana

1. to run (of liquid); to spread; to bleed; to blot

腹はらを見みてみると、シャツに血ちが滲にじんでいた。When I looked down at my stomach, blood was spreading through my shirt.

2. to blur; to blot; to be blurred

字じは少すこし滲にじんでいたが、問もん題だいなく読よめた。The writing was slightly blurred, but it was readable without any problem.

3. to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)

涙なみだの滲にじむ目めで、僕ぼくは前まえを見みる。With eyes welling up with tears, I look ahead.

4. to show through (of feelings, emotions, etc.); to reveal itself

その表ひょう情じょうには怒いかりの色いろが滲にじんでいた。Anger showed through in that expression.

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painstaking (e.g. effort); excruciating (e.g. hard work); grueling

painstaking (e.g. effort); excruciating (e.g. hard work); grueling

painstaking (e.g. effort); excruciating (e.g. hard work); grueling

切せつなくて切せつなくて、涙なみださえにじんでくる。

It is so heartbreaking, so heartbreaking, that even tears well up.

だがその声こえには恐おそれがにじんでいた。

But fear showed through in that voice.

濡ぬれた紙かみにインクがにじむ。

Ink bleeds on wet paper.

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