ichidan verb
be shaved; be planed; be scraped off
Intransitive verb describing something being reduced or smoothed by shaving, planing, or scraping. Often used for wood, pencils, or ice.
この鉛筆はよく削れる。
This pencil sharpens well.
かんなをかけたら、木の表面がきれいに削れた。
After planing, the surface of the wood was shaved smooth.
Standard kanji spelling for the intransitive verb.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the kanji is not needed.
削る is the transitive verb meaning 'to shave, to plane, to scrape off'; 削れる is its intransitive counterpart.
Intransitive form of 削る (けずる), derived by attaching the intransitive suffix 〜れる to the stem.