うめる – Vocabulary details

うめる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to bury (e.g. in the ground)

2. to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed

3. to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to bridge (a difference, a gap); to fill (a seat, a vacant position); to fill out

4. to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends; to compensate for

5. to put cold water (in a bath)

6. to cover; to scatter something over

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to bury (somebody) alive

to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit

to bury in the ground

空くう欄らんをうめなさい。

Fill in the blanks.

彼かれを墓はかにうめた。

They buried him in his grave.

宝たから物ものはその島しまにうめられていた。

The treasure was buried on the island.

我われ々われはうめられた宝たからをさがしていた。

We were looking for buried treasure.

海かい賊ぞくは宝たからを地ち中ちゅうにうめた。

The pirates buried their treasure in the ground.

彼かれの遺い骨こつはここにうめられている。

His ashes are buried here.

子こ犬いぬは穴あなを掘ほって、食たべ物ものを中なかにうめた。

The small dog dug a hole and buried his food in it.

その宝たからはまだ森もりの中なかにあって、そこの木きの下したにうめてある。

The treasure is still in the forest, where it is buried under a tree.

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