Illustration: In a small rented vegetable plot outside a Japanese suburb, a gardener grips a daikon firmly at the base of its leaves and pulls upward with both hands. The white root has just cleared the soil, leaving an unmistakable hole directly beneath it. Loose earth falls from its fine roots.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

抜ぬく

nuku

to pull out

Example sentences

歯医者はいしゃに行いってその歯はを抜ぬいてもらった方ほうがよいですね。
You had better go to the dentist to have that tooth pulled out.
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彼かれは雑草ざっそうをぬいて捨すてた。
He pulled up the weed and threw it away.
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彼かれは歯はを抜ぬいてもらった。
He had his tooth pulled.
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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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