N21030/1725

曲まげる

rarely used kanji formIchidan verbverb (generic)transitive verb

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まげる

Meanings

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

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Example sentences

彼かれは意地いじを張はって、自分じぶんの意見いけんを曲まげなかった。

He stubbornly refused to budge from his opinion.

金属きんぞくを曲まげるには特別とくべつな道具どうぐが必要ひつようだ。

Special tools are needed to bend metal.

事実じじつを曲まげて伝つたえることは、ジャーナリストとして許ゆるされない。

Distorting the facts when reporting is unacceptable as a journalist.

膝ひざを曲まげたまま長時間ちょうじかん座すわっていると、足あしがしびれる。

If you sit with your knees bent for a long time, your legs go numb.

どんな圧力あつりょくをかけられても、彼女かのじょは自みずからの信念しんねんを曲まげることなく闘たたかい続つづけた。

No matter what pressure was applied, she continued to fight without compromising her beliefs.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)