N1 Japanese Compound Verbs – Part 2

N1 Japanese compound verbs – Part 2
Japanese compound verbs at N1
Here is a list of the N1 Japanese compound verbs you need to know.

N1 compound verbs - chapter 2
引き〜
1, 引き上げる: To raise a price, to promote, to withdraw
A. 運賃を引き上げる
To raise the freight charge

B. zaizai様は上司に可愛がれて引き上げられる方です
Mr Zai is well liked by his superiors and has been promoted.

C. 軍隊を引き上げる
To withdraw the troops

2, 引き揚げる To take your leave, to withdraw
もう10時だ。そろそろ引揚げよう」
It's already 10 o'clock, so I'll take my leave.

3, 引き止める To hold back, to keep, to detain
客を引き止める
To keep a customer from leaving.

4, 差し控える To refrain
酒とタバコを差し控える
この件についてはコメントを差し控えたい。
On this matter I would rather not comment.

5, 引き取る To leave, to take in, to take up the thread, to breathe your last.
A.お引き取りください
Please leave

B. 遺児を引き取る
To take in an orphan and care for them.

C. 話を引き取る
To take up the story.

D. 山奥で息を引き取る
To breathe your last deep in the forest.

6, 引きずる To drag / to be affected by
回答を月末まで引き摺る
To drag it out and only answer at the end of the month.

7, 引き締める To concentrate hard / to tighten spending.
収入が減ったので、家計を引き締める
With income down, the household tightens its spending.

8, 引きこもる
Social withdrawal syndrome.
Living as a recluse, shut away at home

振り〜
1, 振り替える To substitute / to stand in for temporarily
事故で電車が一部不通となり、その区間はバス輸送に振り替えられる。
Because of an accident some train lines will be suspended, and buses will be used in their place during that time.

振り回す
彼女は恋人を振り回す
She gave her boyfriend the runaround.

見〜
1, 見なす To regard as /
仕事場を戦場と見なす
To regard the workplace as a battlefield.

2, 見抜く To see through
嘘を見抜く
To see through a lie

3, 見極める
(Anyone who has read An Encouragement of Learning will know this word)

4, 見逃す To miss / to overlook / to let pass / to leave out

5, 見損なう To miss / to misjudge

6, 見出す To find / to discover

We hope this material is useful to you as you learn Japanese and revise for the JLPT.
Good luck with your studies and your exam.

See also: N1 Japanese Compound Verbs – Part 3