生いき別わかれる

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be separated while alive; be parted from (while living)

Emphasizes that the separation occurs while both parties are still alive, often with a sense of lasting or permanent separation. Commonly used in the phrase 生き別れた親子 (parent and child separated while alive).

• 戦せん争そうで生いき別わかれた家か族ぞくを探さがしている。

  I am searching for my family, from whom I was separated during the war.

• 彼かれは幼おさない頃ころに生いき別わかれた母ははに会あいたがっている。

  He wants to meet his mother, from whom he was separated when he was little.