剥ぐ
はぐ
Also written へぐ, 剝ぐ, 折ぐ
Meanings
- Godan verb, Transitive to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay; to bark
- to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
Kanji
- 剥 peel. Read as はぐ.
Example sentences
- 彼の化けの皮をはごうとしたが、むりだった。
I tried in vain to catch him out. - 彼らは木の皮を剥いだ。
They stripped the tree of its bark. - 私はその日、彼らが人間の生皮を剥ぐのを見た。
I watched them skin a human being that day. - 彼はリンゴを剥いでいます。
He's peeling his apple. - ついに化けの皮を剥いだ。
Finally he showed his true colours.
Related forms
- 剥げる (はげる) to peel off (intransitive partner)