Meaning
戒める (いましめる, imashimeru) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “caution against”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
彼は子供たちの浪費を戒めた
He warned the children against waste.
彼は息子の怠惰さを戒めた。
He admonished his son for being lazy.
その記事は再軍備の危険を戒める警告を表明していた.
The article struck a note of warning about the dangers of rearmament.
彼の言葉は浮ついた私を戒めるまさに頂門の一針だった.
His words were exactly the timely admonition I needed in my frivolity.
侍は治兵衛の無礼を戒める為に治兵衛の手首を格子に括り付けてしまう。
In order to caution Jihe's rudeness, samurai bound Jihe's wrists to a lattice.
放生会（ほうじょうえ）とは、捕獲した魚や鳥獣を野に放し、殺生を戒める宗教儀式である。
Hojoe is a religious ritual in which captive animals are released into the wild to admonish against the taking of life.
色欲を戒める意味をもたせて上演されたが、その所作は見物の爆笑をさそったと想像される。
It is considered to have been performed to warn for the human nature with lust, but the performers' action would have set the audience burst into laughter.
満江は助六に破れやすい紙子の衣を着せて、激しい喧嘩を戒めると十郎とともに帰ってゆく。
Manko puts a paper kimono on Sukeroku and warns him against having big fights, and returns home with Juro.
ここは（仏教の修行のための）寺なので、その修行を妨げることは何事も禁じ戒めるものである。
Because this is a temple (for Buddhist training), nothing is to obstruct training in the religion.
出没の伝えられる地方では、子供が遅くなるまで遊んでいると「一反木綿が出るよ」と言って戒める風習もあったそうである。
In areas where this ghost was said to haunt, a child playing outside until dark was customarily warned, 'You will be haunted by Ittan-momen if you do not go home.'
あまりにも熱中しすぎていたため、永正元年（1504年）には「すこぶる狂事なり、咲（わら）ふべし咲ふべし」（5月14日）と、自らを戒める記述がある。
Because he was so absorbed in it, there is a passage dated Eisho 1 (1504), May 14, in which he admonishes himself, writing 'utter folly, laughable, laughable.'