Illustration: On a low table in a Japanese living room, a cloth-wrapped lunch box sits between a grandmother and her grandchild. The grandmother steadies the bundle while the child pulls one free end of its tied bow.

ほどく

hodoku

to untie, to undo

Example sentences

最初さいしょに、彼かれは靴くつひもをほどいてくつを脱ぬいだ。
The first thing he did was to untie his shoelaces and take his shoes off.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
この間違まちがいを修正しゅうせいするためにこの縫ぬい目めをほどかなくてはならない。
In order to fix this mistake we’ll have to tear out this seam.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
私わたしは靴くつの紐ひもをほどいた。
I loosened my shoelaces.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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