N21365/1725

こす

rarely used kanji formusually written using kana alonegodan verbgodan verb (archaic)verb (generic)transitive verbslangvideo games

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Meanings

  • to rub, to scrub, to scrape
  • to repeatedly reuse (a joke, a topic of conversation, etc.), to milk, to keep getting mileage out of
  • to mash (a button), to spam (a move)

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Example sentences

よごれた部分ぶぶんつよこすると、きれいになりますよ。

If you scrub the dirty part hard, it will become clean.

こすらないほうがいい。悪化あっかするかもしれないから。

You shouldn't rub your eyes. It might make things worse.

かれはいつもおなじネタをこすりすぎて、もうだれわらわない。

He keeps milking the same joke too much, and nobody laughs anymore.

フライパンをたわしでこすってあぶらとした。

I scrubbed the frying pan with a scrub brush to remove the grease.

そのコンボをずっとこすっているせいで、対戦たいせん相手あいて完全かんぜんまれてしまった。

Because I kept spamming that combo, my opponent completely figured it out.