埋める
うめる
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Transitive to bury (e.g. in the ground)
- to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed
- to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to bridge (a difference, a gap); to fill (a seat, a vacant position); to fill out (a form, a sheet)
- to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends; to compensate for
- to put cold water (in a bath)
- to cover; to scatter something over
Kanji
- 埋 bury. Read as うめる.
Example sentences
- 空所を埋めろ。
Fill in the blanks. - 空所を適当な言葉でうめなさい。
Fill in the blanks with suitable words. - 我々は埋められた宝をさがしていた。
We were looking for buried treasure. - その宝はまだ森の中にあって、そこの木の下に埋めてある。
The treasure is still in the forest, where it is buried under a tree. - あいつの損を埋めてやらなくちゃならないんだ。
I have to cover his loss.
Common phrases
- 埋め尽くす (うめつくす) to fill to capacity
- 穴を埋める (あなをうめる) to fill in a hole
- 隙間を埋める
- 遺体を埋める
- ギャップを埋める
- 間を埋める
- 空白を埋める
- 差を埋める
- 地中に埋める
- 庭に埋める
- 土に埋める (つちにうめる) to bury in the ground
- 死体を埋める
- 溝を埋める
- 骨を埋める (ほねをうずめる) to make (somewhere) one's final home
- タイムカプセルを埋める
Related forms
- 埋まる (うまる) to be buried (intransitive partner)
Words containing 埋める
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