削

Meaning

削 centers on removing thin layers from a surface: planing wood, sharpening a pencil, whittling, paring, or shaving off material.

• 削除さくじょ
  N3

  deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out

• 削るけずる
  N3

  to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to erode

• 削減さくげん
  N2

  cut; reduction; curtailment

• 掘削くっさく

  digging out; excavation

• 削ぐそぐ

  to chip (off); to shave off; to slice off; to cut off

• 添削てんさく
  N1

  correction; looking over; touching up

• 切削せっさく

  cutting (e.g. metal)

• 削れるけずれる

  to be shaved or planed

• 研削けんさく

  grinding

• 荒削りあらけずり

  rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed

• 開削かいさく

  excavation; cutting; digging

• 削り取るけずりとる

  to shave off; to scrape off

• 削り節けずりぶし

  flaked bonito

• 削げるそげる

  to split; to be split; to splinter; to chip; to be sliced (off); to be scraped (off)

• しのぎを削るしのぎをけずる

  to compete ruthlessly; to sharpen swords

• コスト削減コストさくげん

  cost reduction; cost saving

• トンネル掘削機トンネルくっさくき

  tunnel boring machine; TBM

• ファイルの削除ファイルのさくじょ

  file deletion

• 予算を削るよさんをけずる

  to curtail a budget

• 予算削減よさんさくげん

  budget cut

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