断つ – Vocabulary details

断たつ

Verb (5-dan, つ, transitive)

1. to sever; to cut off

普ふ通つうに考かんがえれば、外そとへの連れん絡らくを断たつためだろう。If you think about it normally, it is probably to cut off contact with the outside.

2. to suppress; to eradicate; to exterminate

事じ故この原げん因いんを断たつための対たい策さくが必ひつ要ようだ。We need measures to eliminate the causes of accidents.

3. to abstain (from); to give up

いちばん好すきなものを断たつ。You give up the thing you like most.

be cut off

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to cut off the retreat

to fast

to cut the Gordian knot

高こう校こう生せいの言こと葉ばは、途と中ちゅうで断たたれた。

The high school student's words were cut off midway.

いちばん好すきなものを断たつ。

You give up the thing you like most.

悪あくの根ねを断たたなければならない。

We have to cut evil off at the root.

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