曲げる
まげる
Also written 枉げる
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Transitive to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl
- to lean; to tilt; to incline; to slant
- to bend (the truth); to distort; to twist; to pervert
- to yield (a point); to depart (from a principle); to ignore (what one really thinks)
- to pawn
Kanji
- 曲 melody. Read as まげる.
Example sentences
- 私はひざを曲げずに両方の手のひらを床に付けることができる。
I can place the palms of my hands on the floor without bending my knees. - 右腕を曲げられません。
I can't bend my right arm. - 誰がなんと言おうと彼女は自説を曲げない。
She will not budge an inch no matter what anyone says. - 猫は背を弓なりに曲げた。
The cat arched its back. - 彼は主義を曲げない。
He sticks to his principles.
Common phrases
- 体を曲げる
- 腕を曲げる
- 膝を曲げる
- 脚を曲げる
- 肘を曲げる
- 信念を曲げない
- 左に曲げる
- 腰を曲げる
- 首を曲げる
- 字に曲げる
- 手首を曲げる
- 指を曲げる
- へそを曲げる (へそをまげる) to (go into a) sulk
- 事実を曲げる (じじつをまげる) to falsify a fact
- スプーンを曲げる
Related forms
- 曲がる (まがる) to bend (intransitive partner)
Words containing 曲げる
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