下くだし

Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

Refers to the act of purging or evacuating the bowels, often in a medical or physiological context. Can also be used figuratively for clearing out something unwanted.

医い者しゃは患かん者じゃに下くだしを促うながした。
The doctor urged the patient to have a bowel movement.
この薬くすりは強つよい下くだしの作さ用ようがある。
This medicine has a strong purgative effect.

Expressions

くだしあplease (give me) · please (do for me)

Kanji

下below, down, descend

Related words

下げ痢りN1
下痢 is the specific medical term for loose, frequent bowel movements, while 下し is the broader noun for the act of purging or evacuating the bowels.

Opposites

便べん秘ぴN2
便秘 means constipation, the direct opposite of 下し's sense of evacuation or purging of the bowels.

Don't confuse with

下おろし
下し (くだし) refers to purging or evacuation of the bowels, while 下ろし (おろし) uses different okurigana on the same kanji and means grating (as in daikon oroshi) or taking something down.

Counted with

回かいN4
counter for occurrences; times · time; instance; occasion · inning (baseball); round; game · episode; chapter; installment · Hui (people) · Islam

Word family

腹はら下くだし
laxative; purgative · loose bowels; diarrhea
下くだし薬ぐすり
laxative; purgative
虫むし下くだし
deworming medicine; anthelmintic
吐はき下くだし
vomiting and diarrhea
書かき下くだし
writing from top to bottom · writing without a pause · translation of classical Chinese into Japanese
読よみ下くだし
reading a text from start to finish · transliterating classical Chinese into Japanese

Etymology

Derived from the verb 下す (くだす, 'to purge, to evacuate'), with the nominalizing suffix し. The kanji 下 carries the meaning of 'down' or 'to let down', reflecting the downward movement associated with evacuation.