引き裂く – Vocabulary details

引ひき裂さく

Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)

1. to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to tear to pieces

しかし、着きていた服ふくは引ひき裂さかれてもう着きれる状じょう態たいではない。But the clothes I had on have been ripped apart and can't be worn anymore.

2. to (forcibly) separate (a couple, family, etc.); to force apart; to tear apart

しかし、戦せん争そうがふたりを引ひき裂さいた。But the war tore the two of them apart.

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pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back

to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye

彼かの女じょは手て紙がみを引ひき裂さいた。

She tore up the letter.

しかし、戦せん争そうがふたりを引ひき裂さいた。

But the war tore the two of them apart.

強ごう引いんに二ふた人りの間あいだを引ひき裂さかれた。

The two of us were forcibly torn apart.

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