削る

けずる

Meanings

  1. Godan verb, Transitive to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to erode
  2. to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to reduce
  3. to delete; to erase; to remove; to cross out; to strike out

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