棄

Meanings

abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice

ES: tirar, descartar, abandonar, arrojar, desechar

Common words

• 棄権きけんabstention (from voting), renunciation (of a right), withdrawal (from a contest)
• 破棄はきtearing up and discarding (e.g. documents), destruction
• 廃棄はいきdisposal, abandonment, scrapping, discarding, abolition
• 放棄ほうきabandonment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, abdication, surrender, relinquishing, waiving, giving up
• 棄却ききゃくrejection, dismissal, turning down, abandoning, renunciation
• 自棄やけdesperation, despair, self-abandonment
• 遺棄いきabandonment, desertion
• 投棄とうきabandonment, giving up, throwing away, disposal, dumping

Example sentences

• 日本国民にほんこくみんは戦争せんそうを放棄ほうきしている。

  The Japanese people have renounced war.

  El pueblo japonés ha renunciado a la guerra.

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• 今度こんどの選挙せんきょは棄権きけんするつもりだ。

  I don't plan to vote at the upcoming election.

  No pienso votar en la próxima elección.

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• いざ投票とうひょうという時とき、彼かれは棄権きけんした。

  When it was time to vote, he abstained.

  Cuando era hora de votar, se abstuvo.

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• 産業廃棄物が地球を汚染する。

  Industrial wastes pollute the earth.

  Los desechos industriales contaminan la tierra.

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