切りひらく – Vocabulary details

切きりひらく

Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)

1. to cut open

魚さかなの腹はらを包ほう丁ちょうで切きり開ひらく。Cut open the fish's belly with a kitchen knife.

2. to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to open; to cut one's way through (e.g. a jungle)

この街かい道どうは森もりを切きり開ひらいて作つくられたもの。This road was made by clearing the forest.

3. to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)

未み来らいを切きり開ひらくのか。Will you carve out the future?

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end; finish; bound; limit; finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki); trump card

to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

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