裂く – Vocabulary details

裂さく

Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)

1. to tear; to rip up

2. to cut up; to cleave; to cut open (esp. the abdomen)

3. to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers)

4. to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye

split

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to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces

to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)

shrill; piercing (scream, etc.)

to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces

to estrange (two friends); to come between (two people); to drive a wedge

avarice brings doom upon oneself; grasp all, lose all; (lit.) the greedy hawk-eagle splits in half (when trying to catch two boars at once)

その少しょう女じょはその布ぬのを裂さいた。

The girl tore the cloth.

彼かれはその紙かみを二ふたつに裂さいた。

He tore the paper in two.

彼かれはその新しん聞ぶんを半はん分ぶんに裂さいた。

He tore the newspaper in half.

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