生かす – Vocabulary details

生いかす

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.)

さっそく、訓くん練れんに生いかすようにいたします！I will make sure to put it to good use in training right away!

2. to let live; to keep alive

どうせ戦たたかうなら、みんなを生いかすために戦たたかいたい。If I'm going to fight anyway, I want to fight to keep everyone alive.

3. to revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life

4. to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)

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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

魚さかなは生いかしておくよ。

I'll keep the fish alive.

己おのれも生いき他ほかも生いかせ。

Live and let live.

先さきほどの訓くん練れんを生いかしてくださいね。

Please make good use of the training from earlier.

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