Illustration: Inside an old apartment being renovated, a worker braces one foot and grips a broad loose edge of wallpaper with both hands. They pull the sheet away from the wall in a long curling strip, exposing the plain wooden surface beneath.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

剥はぐ

hagu

to peel off, to strip off

Example sentences

  1. 野菜やさいの皮かわを剥はいでいた。

    I was peeling vegetables.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 一部いちぶには、キトラ古墳同様こふんどうように壁画へきがを剥はぎ取とって古墳外こふんがいで保存ほぞんすべきだという意見いけんもあるが、計画けいかくでは修復後しゅうふくごに現地げんちに戻もどすことになっている。

    Some suggested that, like Kitora Tumulus, the mural paintings be detached and conserved outside the tumulus, but the plan specified that they were returned to their original places.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. しかし、最後さいごにワニに着物きものを剥はぎ取とられた。

    But in the end, the crocodiles stripped him of his clothes.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 剥

  • 剥come off; peelOnハク・ホクKunへぐ・へずる・はがれる

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