godan verb (-su), transitive verb
read through; read from start to finish
Only when written 読み下す
Used for reading a text continuously from beginning to end, often with the nuance of reading aloud or reading thoroughly.
長い小説を一晩で読み下した。
I read through the long novel in one night.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
Specifically refers to the traditional practice of converting classical Chinese (kanbun) into Japanese word order and adding kana to make it readable as Japanese.
漢文を読み下して、日本語として理解する。
I transliterate the classical Chinese text into Japanese to understand it as Japanese.