濁す

Reading

Kana: にごす

Romaji: nigosu

Definitions

v5s

vt

1

to make muddy (a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to roil

2

to prevaricate; to speak ambiguously

See also: お茶を濁す 茶を濁す 言葉を濁す

Kanji

濁

Readings: ダク、 ジョク、 にご.る、 にご.す

Meanings: voiced, uncleanness, wrong, nigori, impurity

Example Sentence

水面(すいめん)から飛(と)び立(た)つ鳥(とり)は努(つと)めてあとを濁(にご)さぬようにする。

➥A fowl flying up from water is careful not to make it turbid.