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44 荒らす To Lay Waste

Alternative Meanings

To Devastate

Part of Speech

Transitive verb and Godan verb

Reading

あらす

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

Context Sentence

昨夜車上荒らしにあって、マックを盗まれました。

My car was broken into last night and my mac was stolen.

Meaning Explanation

荒れる is "to be stormy" or "to be rough." This is when you do the stormy rough things. You go wild on everyone, trying to lay waste and to devastate everything around you.

Reading Explanation

The reading comes from 荒れる.

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