絶つ – Vocabulary details

絶たつ

Verb (5-dan, つ, transitive)

1. to sever; to cut off

普ふ通つうに考かんがえれば、外そとへの連れん絡らくを断たつためだろう。If you think about it normally, it is probably to cut off contact with the outside.

2. to suppress; to eradicate; to exterminate

事じ故この原げん因いんを断たつための対たい策さくが必ひつ要ようだ。We need measures to eliminate the causes of accidents.

3. to abstain (from); to give up

いちばん好すきなものを断たつ。You give up the thing you like most.

cut off

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to end one's life; to commit suicide; to end a life; to kill

to stop communicating; to never be heard from again; to disappear; to go missing

to lose contact with (someone); to stop communication with; to go missing; to disappear

天てんに代かわって悪あくを絶たつ。

I will wipe out evil in Heaven's stead.

臭くさいにおいを根ね元もとから絶たつのよ！

We'll get rid of the bad smell at its source!

あの国くには近きん隣りん諸しょ国こくとの外がい交こう関かん係けいを絶たった。

That country broke off diplomatic relations with the neighboring countries.

その村むらは長ながい間あいだ、外がい部ぶとの交こう渉しょうを絶たっていた。

For a long time, the village had cut itself off from all contact with the outside.

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