Illustration: At a home kitchen counter, a cook steadies half a small melon and scoops out its remaining flesh with a rounded spoon. The rind stays intact as a bowl, with a broad, deep cavity already exposed. A tray beside it holds the removed melon balls, and the spoon is lifting one more from the inner wall.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

くり抜ぬく

kurinuku

to hollow out

Example sentences

  1. ユズの上部じょうぶを切きり取とった後のち、中身なかみをくり抜ぬき、この中なかに味噌みそ、山椒さんしょう、クルミなどを詰つめて、切きり取とった上部じょうぶで蓋ふたをする。

    After the upper part of citron is cut away, the citron is hollowed and is stuffed with miso, Japanese pepper, walnut, and the like; then the upper part which was first cut away is placed on top as a lid.

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

  2. しかし、巨木きょぼくを刳くり抜ぬいたものではなく、縦たてに長ながい三枚さんまいの板いたを合あわせたものである。

    However, it is not a hollowed-out chest from a giant tree but a combination of three vertically long wooden boards.

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

  3. 現代げんだいの箏そうは上面うわつらと両側面りょうそくめんは一ひとつの材ざいをくり抜ぬいて作つくり、下面かめんだけ別材べつざいを張はり合あわせる構造こうぞうである。

    Modern koto are made by hollowing out a single piece of wood to form the top and both sides, then attaching a separate piece of wood to the bottom.

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

Kanji in 抜

  • 抜slip out; extractOnバツ・ハツ・ハイKunぬく・ぬき・ぬける

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