そこなう – Vocabulary details

そこなう

Verb (5-dan, う, transitive)

1. to harm; to hurt; to injure; to damage; to spoil; to mar

Auxiliary verb (5-dan, う)

2. to fail to ...; to miss one's opportunity to ...

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to be badly made; to fail

to misjudge; to mistake; to misjudge (someone); to overestimate; to miss seeing; to overlook

to fail; to slip up; to make a botch job (of)

彼かれはその手て紙がみに返へん事じを出だしそこなった。

He failed to answer the letter.

このことで彼かの女じょの名めい声せいは、大おおいにそこなわれた。

Her good fame was greatly damaged by this.

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