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生いかす
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.)
I will make sure to put it to good use in training right away!
2. to let live; to keep alive
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)
Alt. forms
生いかす
63%
活いかす
34%
いかす
2%
Kanji used
生
life
Pitch accent
い
か
す
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Conjugations...Used in: 3465
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 (15 in total)
I'll keep the fish alive.
Live and let live.
Please make good use of the training from earlier.
Thank you for keeping me alive until today.
He deliberately kept me alive.
It's up to me whether I kill you or let you live!
I will make sure to put it to good use in training right away!
He made good use of the money.
If I'm going to fight anyway, I want to fight to keep everyone alive.
I'll make the finest weapon, one that makes full use of all of it.
It would be good if we could put these lessons to use then.
You should make the best of a bad situation.
Now is the time to make the most of that weapon!
Whether this opportunity is seized or squandered depends entirely on my skill.
Making use of her small frame, she slipped between the trees and kept running straight ahead.