Meanings
Readings
Common Words
adventure; venture
Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger; hazard; risk
beginning; opening; start; outset
to brave a danger; to take a risk
to brave; to risk; to face; to venture
Of a disease, chemical, etc.
to harm; to afflict; to affect
to desecrate; to profane
to assume (someone else's surname); to take
blasphemy; profanity; sacrilege; desecration; defilement
adventurer
adventurous spirit; sense of adventure
to be attacked by a disease
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Youโll risk your eyesight if you turn your eyes to look up at the sun.
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