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にらむ · godan verb (-mu)

Meanings

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

usually written using kana alone

To stare at someone with anger, hostility, or strong displeasure.

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

stare intensely at; examine carefully

usually written using kana alone

To look at something fixedly and with concentration, often to scrutinize or study it.

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

usually written using kana alone

To form a rough judgment or suspicion about something based on observation or intuition.

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

usually written using kana alone

To monitor someone, often a suspicious or untrustworthy person; frequently used in the passive form にらまれる.

〈人ひと〉を睨にらむto glare at someone
彼かれは怒おこった顔かおで私わたしを睨にらんだ。
He glared at me with an angry face.
〈人ひと〉に睨にらまれるto be watched with suspicion by someone
彼かれは上じょう司しに睨にらまれていて、いつも気きを遣つかっている。
He's on his boss's watch list, so he's always careful.
〈事こと〉だとにらむto suspect that something is the case
警けい察さつは彼かれが犯はん人にんだとにらんでいる。
The police suspect that he is the culprit.
〈事こと〉を睨にらんでwith an eye toward something; taking something into consideration
将しょう来らいの市し場じょうの動うごきを睨にらんで計けい画かくを立たてた。
We made the plan with an eye toward future market trends.
じっと睨にらむto stare intently at something
彼かれはページをじっと睨にらんで考かんがえ込こんだ。
He stared intently at the page, deep in thought.

にらみがきくhave authority over; have great influence over
睨にらみを利きかすexercise authority over; keep in check; influence · glare at; scowl at; glower at
睨にらみを利きかせるexercise authority; wield influence; keep in check · glare; scowl; glower

見みつめるN2sense 2
見つめる means to gaze steadily at something, often with neutral or positive emotion, while 睨む implies a sharp, hostile, or scrutinizing stare.
疑うたがうN3sense 3
疑う means to doubt or suspect in a general sense, while 睨む in its estimating sense suggests a more intuitive, observation-based suspicion.
監かん視しN1sense 4
監視する is a neutral, formal term for watching over someone or something, while 睨む implies suspicion or wariness toward the person being watched.
推すい測そくN1sense 3
推測する is a neutral word for making a guess or inference, while 睨む in this sense carries a sharper, more instinctive sense of suspicion.
見み込こむN1sense 5
見込む means to factor something in or anticipate it in planning, close to 睨む's sense of taking a factor into account, but without any hint of suspicion.

笑わらいかけるN2
睨む means to glare or scowl at someone, the hostile opposite of 笑いかける, which means to smile at someone warmly.

眺ながめるN3sense 1
眺める means to look at something leisurely or admiringly, whereas 睨む means to stare with hostility or intense scrutiny.

睨にらみ
glare; sharp look; stare
両りょう睨にらみ
keeping a close watch on both sides; keeping an eye on two things at once
八はっ方ぽう睨にらみ
watching all sides; keeping an eye on every direction
睨にらみ倒たおす
stare down; outstare
睨にらみ合あう
glare at each other · confront each other; face off

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The origin is uncertain. The kanji 睨 is composed of 目 (eye) and 兒 (child, later simplified to 儿), suggesting a fixed, staring gaze.