断つ
たつ
Also written 絶つ
Meanings
- Godan verb, Transitive to sever; to cut off
- to suppress; to eradicate; to exterminate
- to abstain (from); to give up
Kanji
- 断 sever. Read as たつ.
Example sentences
- ひとたび悪癖が身につくと、それを断つのは難しい。
A bad habit, once formed, is difficult to get rid of. - ２時間ほど前から雷雨のため連絡が断たれている。
Communications have been cut off for two hours because of a thunderstorm. - 人々は供給が断たれるまでは電気をあって当然のものと思っている。
People take electricity for granted until its supply is cut off. - 彼は１８年間働いた会社と関係を絶った。
He dissociated himself from the firm he had worked for for eighteen years. - 彼女は自らの命を絶った。
She took her own life.
Common phrases
- 消息を絶つ (しょうそくをたつ) to stop communicating
- 関係を断つ
- 後を絶たない (あとをたたない) unceasing
- 命を絶つ (いのちをたつ) to end one's life
- 後を絶たず (あとをたたず) never ceasing
- 連鎖を断つ
- 接触を断つ
- 関わりを断つ
- 繋がりを断つ
- 資金源を断つ
Words containing 断つ
- 断ち切る (たちきる) to cut (cloth, paper, etc.)
- 断ち割る (たちわる) to cut apart
- 断ち物 (たちもの) foods abstained from in hopes of having one's desire granted
And 2 more.