戒める
いましめる
to warn, to caution
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Examples
自らを戒める。
みずからをいましめる。
I caution myself.
教師は生徒の軽率な行動を戒めた。
きょうしはせいとのけいそつなこうどうをいましめた。
The teacher warned the students against careless behaviour.
気の緩みを戒める言葉を胸に刻んだ。
きのゆるみをいましめることばをむねにきざんだ。
I took to heart the words warning against letting my guard down.
Common patterns
- 自らを戒める
- to keep oneself in check
- 油断を戒める
- to warn against carelessness
- 戒めとする
- to take as a lesson
Memory tip
戒める looks forward: it warns against a slip that has not happened yet, very often one's own, as in 自らを戒める. The noun 戒め means 'a lesson learned', as in 失敗を戒めとする.
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