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jmdict 1260050 Active (id: 2206004)
見返す [spec2,news2,nf46]
みかえす [spec2,news2,nf46]
1. [v5s,vt]
▶ to look (stare) back at (someone)
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1604410 見返し【みかえし】 3. looking back; triumphing over (a rival)
2. [v5s,vt]
▶ to look at again
▶ to re-examine
3. [v5s,vt]
▶ to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending)
▶ to put a person to shame
▶ to get one's own back
4. [v5s,vi]
▶ to look back (behind oneself)

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2022-08-24 07:32:16  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5, etc.
  Comments:
I'm not seeing that in references.
  Diff:
@@ -31 +31,2 @@
-<gloss>to prove someone wrong</gloss>
+<gloss>to put a person to shame</gloss>
+<gloss>to get one's own back</gloss>
4. A* 2022-08-21 01:55:21 
  Diff:
@@ -30,0 +31 @@
+<gloss>to prove someone wrong</gloss>
3. A 2021-11-19 10:46:08  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Converting somebody to someone
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -19 +19 @@
-<gloss>to look (stare) back at (somebody)</gloss>
+<gloss>to look (stare) back at (someone)</gloss>
2. A 2018-11-22 00:29:44  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2018-11-21 07:55:11  Alan Cheng <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr/s
  Comments:
Had a hard time wording the 3rd definition.
  Diff:
@@ -19,2 +19,17 @@
-<gloss>to look (stare) back at</gloss>
-<gloss>to triumph over</gloss>
+<gloss>to look (stare) back at (somebody)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5s;</pos>
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<gloss>to look at again</gloss>
+<gloss>to re-examine</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5s;</pos>
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<gloss>to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5s;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<gloss>to look back (behind oneself)</gloss>

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