N265/1725

防ぼう止し

nounnoun (generic)noun (suffix)noun or participle taking the aux. verb するtransitive verb

Reading

ぼうし

Meanings

prevention, check

Learn in context

Example sentences

事故じこを防止ぼうしするために、安全あんぜん対策たいさくが必要ひつようです。

Safety measures are necessary in order to prevent accidents.

感染かんせん防止ぼうしのため、手洗てあらいを徹底てっていしてください。

Please be thorough about washing your hands to prevent infection.

この薬くすりは病気びょうきの悪化あっかを防止ぼうしできると言いわれている。

This medicine is said to be able to prevent the worsening of illness.

犯罪はんざい防止ぼうしを目的もくてきとして、地域ちいき全体ぜんたいで取とり組くんでいる。

The entire community is working together with the aim of crime prevention.

環境かんきょう汚染おせんを防止ぼうししなければ、将来しょうらいの世代せだいに深刻しんこくな影響えいきょうを与あたえることになる。

If we do not prevent environmental pollution, it will end up having a serious impact on future generations.

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.)