Illustration: Beside a neighborhood apartment's bicycle parking area, a resident crouches over weeds growing between paving stones. Her fingers pinch a tuft close to the ground and pull upward, exposing thin roots with crumbs of soil still attached.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

むしる

mushiru

to pluck, to tear out

Usually written in hiragana. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

ぐはっ！？俺おれの貴重きちょうな頭髪とうはつを、むしるな！
O-oi!? Don’t rip off my precious hair!
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
これは穂ほの部分ぶぶんだけをむしるように切きり取とっていたためだと考かんがえられている。
This is thought to be because they cut off only the ears of grain, as if plucking them.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
庭にわの雑草ざっそうを一本いっぽんずつむしった。
I pulled the weeds in the garden one by one.
Written by AI for Bebop

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