棄

Meaning

棄 centers on letting go of something completely: abandoning, discarding, or throwing away. The ideas of resigning, rejecting, and sacrificing are natural extensions of giving something up.

• 放棄ほうき
  N1

  abandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender; relinquishing; waiving; giving up

• 廃棄はいき
  N1

  disposal; abandonment; scrapping; discarding; abolition

• 破棄はき
  N1

  tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction

• 自棄やけ
  N1

  desperation; despair; self-abandonment

• 棄権きけん
  N1

  abstention (from voting); renunciation (of a right); withdrawal (from a contest)

• 遺棄いき

  abandonment; desertion

• 投棄とうき

  abandonment; giving up; throwing away; disposal; dumping

• 棄却ききゃく
  N1

  rejection; dismissal; turning down; abandoning; renunciation

• 自暴自棄じぼうじき

  desperation; despair; self-abandonment

• 棄教ききょう

  apostasy; renunciation (e.g. of a religion); defection

• 棄民きみん

  abandoned people (people left to fend for themselves after a war or natural disaster)

• 唾棄だき

  disdain; contempt; scorn; abhorrence

• 廃棄物はいきぶつ

  waste matter; waste; garbage; trash

• セル廃棄セルはいき

  cell discarding

• セル廃棄率セルはいきりつ

  cell loss rate

• フレーム廃棄フレームはいき

  frame discard

• 一般廃棄物いっぱんはいきぶつ

  domestic waste; general waste; non-industrial waste

• 不法投棄ふほうとうき

  illegal dumping; fly-tipping

• 低レベル放射性廃棄物ていレベルほうしゃせいはいきぶつ

  low-level radioactive waste

• 債権放棄さいけんほうき

  debt forgiveness; debt waiver

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