Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
1. to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
Kanji used
deceased
Pitch accent
くす
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Examples (11 in total)
I lost my wife last year.
I lost my wife in a traffic accident.
Her father died when she was young.
He had his only son killed in the war.
I lost my grandfather to cancer this year.
He had his only son killed in an automobile accident.
She lost her father when she was three years old.
I lost my son about a decade ago.
I couldn't but sympathize with the girl who had lost her parents in the accident.
Tom lost his wife seven years ago.
I lost my father to a subarachnoid haemorrhage when I was fourteen.