Illustration: At an apartment kitchen table, an adult peels a large plain adhesive sticker from a reusable lunchbox. One hand anchors the box while the other pulls the lifted corner backward, curling the sticker into a broad flap.

はがす

hagasu

to peel off, to tear off

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは窓まどからステッカーを引ひき剥はがした。
She tore away the stickers from the window.
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その警官けいかんは家いえから看板かんばんをはがした。
The policeman tore the signboard from the house.
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親指おやゆびの爪つめをはがしてしまいました。
I had my thumbnail torn off.
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