Illustration: At a small kitchen table, a child has just bitten a piece cleanly from the end of a long cucumber. The detached chunk is visible between the front teeth, separated by a clear gap from the remaining cucumber held in one hand. Its fresh bite edge faces the viewer.

Beyond N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

噛かみ切きる

kamikiru

to bite off, to gnaw through

Example sentences

  1. プチッ、と糸いとを犬歯けんしで噛かみ切きった。

    I snapped the thread on my canine.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれはロープを噛かみ切きった。

    He cut the rope with his teeth.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. また繊維質せんいしつであるため肉質にくしつは弾力だんりょくが強つよく、普通ふつうの刺身さしみの厚あつさに切きると、一般いっぱんの人ひとでは噛かみ切きることに苦労くろうする。

    As pufferfish meat is fibrous and elastic, when it is sliced as thick as ordinary sashimi, people have difficulty chewing it.

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

Kanji in 噛切

  • 噛chew; biteOnコウ・ゴウKunかむ・かじる
  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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