逃がす: to set free
逃がす nigasu
to set free; to let go; to miss (e.g. a chance)
JLPT N2Animals & plants
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Example sentences
兄弟たちは、また、割れた木にはさんで殺しましたが、母が助けて逃がし、オオヤビコという神が、「根の堅州国のスサノオのところへ行きなさい」と言いました。
The brothers killed him again by trapping him in a split tree, but his mother saved him and helped him flee, and a god called Ōyabiko told him, “Go to Susanoo in the Land of Roots.”
From the lesson 大国主の試練と根の国