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いかす
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
1. to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to capitalise on (experience, etc.)
2. to let live; to keep alive
3. to revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life
4. to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
Alt. forms
生いかす
64%
活いかす
33%
いかす
2%
Pitch accent
い
か
す
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Conjugations...Used in: 335
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
to draw on one's experience; to make good use of one's experience; to turn one's experience to good account
to revive the dead
to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; (lit.) to kill a small bug and save a large one
Examples (5 in total)
I'll keep the fish alive.
Live and let live.
It's up to me whether I kill you or let you live!
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