託たくす

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

entrust; leave in someone's care; assign responsibility to

Used when placing a person, task, future, responsibility, or important matter in someone else's hands. More formal and weighty than everyday 任せる.

See also: 託する

• 会かい社しゃの再さい建けんを若わかい社しゃ長ちょうに託たくした。

  They entrusted the rebuilding of the company to the young president.

• 旅りょ行こう中ちゅう、猫ねこの世せ話わを隣りん人じんに託たくした。

  While traveling, I left the care of the cat to my neighbor.

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

send through someone; have someone deliver; leave a message with

Used for giving a message, letter, parcel, or similar item to an intermediary so that it reaches someone else. Often appears with 手紙, 伝言, 荷物, and similar nouns.

• 母ははへの手て紙がみを弟おとうとに託たくした。

  I entrusted my younger brother with a letter for my mother.

• 受うけ付つけに伝でん言ごんを託たくして帰かえった。

  I left a message with reception and went home.

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

put feelings into; express through; convey in the form of

Common in artistic, literary, or expressive contexts: one puts thoughts, feelings, hopes, or opinions into a poem, song, image, gesture, and so on.

• 作さく者しゃはその詩しに故こ郷きょうへの思おもいを託たくした。

  The author put his feelings for his hometown into that poem.

• 彼かの女じょは歌うたに平へい和わへの願ねがいを託たくした。

  She expressed her wish for peace through the song.

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

use as a pretext; make an excuse of

Limited, rather formal or literary use, often in the pattern Nに託して. In ordinary modern speech, 口実にする or かこつける is usually more direct.

• 彼かれは病びょう気きに託たくして面めん会かいを断ことわった。

  He refused the meeting on the pretext of illness.