きり拓く – Vocabulary details

きり拓ひらく

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?

clear the way

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end; finish; bound; limit; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

to open (e.g. path); to clear (the way); to break up (e.g. land)

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