Illustration: In a rented vegetable plot beside a Japanese housing estate, a gardener has just pulled an unexpectedly large daikon from the soil. Both hands clutch its leafy crown, the entire root hangs clear of a fresh hole, and crumbs of earth fall from its thin rootlets.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

引ひき抜ぬく

hikinuku

to pull out, to uproot

Example sentences

その植物しょくぶつを根ねこそぎ引ひき抜ぬきなさい。
Pull the plant up by the roots.
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歯科医しかいは彼女かのじょの虫歯むしばを引ひき抜ぬいた。
The dentist pulled out her bad tooth.
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歯医者はいしゃは私わたしの虫歯むしばをむりやり引ひき抜ぬいた。
The dentist pulled out my decayed tooth by force.
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Kanji in 引抜

引pullOnインKunひく・ひける
抜slip out; extractOnバツ・ハツ・ハイKunぬく・ぬき・ぬける

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