切きれる

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

break; snap; be cut; burst or give way

Intransitive physical separation or rupture: a string snaps, something is cut through, a surface splits, or a bank, dam, or similar structure gives way.

• 強つよく引ひっぱったら、ひもが切きれた。

  When I pulled hard, the string snapped.

• 大おお雨あめで堤てい防ぼうが切きれた。

  The embankment gave way in the heavy rain.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be cut; be injured

Used when skin, lips, or another body part is cut or split open; the injured body part is normally the subject.

• 転ころんだ拍ひょう子しに唇くちびるが切きれた。

  When I fell, my lip got cut.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

wear out; be worn through

Describes cloth, shoes, paper, or similar materials becoming worn through, frayed, or torn from use.

• 長ながく履はいた靴くつ下したのかかとが切きれてきた。

  The heels of the socks I had worn for a long time started to wear through.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

wear off; stop working; go dead

Used when an effect, power supply, signal, or mechanism ceases: medicine wears off, a battery dies, or a device stops functioning.

• 夕ゆう方がたには薬くすりの効こう果かが切きれてきた。

  By evening, the medicine's effect had begun to wear off.

• 途と中ちゅうでスマホの電でん池ちが切きれた。

  My phone battery died on the way.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

expire; run out; become due

Used for time limits, validity periods, contracts, tickets, payment deadlines, and similar limits reaching their end.

• パスポートの有ゆう効こう期き限げんが去きょ年ねん切きれた。

  My passport expired last year.

• 支し払はらい期き限げんが切きれる前まえに振ふり込こんでください。

  Please make the transfer before the payment deadline passes.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

run out; be used up; be sold out

Used when supplies, stock, ingredients, money, patience, or similar resources are exhausted; 在庫が切れる is the standard stock phrase.

• 牛ぎゅう乳にゅうが切きれたので、帰かえりに買かってきます。

  We've run out of milk, so I'll buy some on the way home.

• その商しょう品ひんは午ご前ぜん中ちゅうに在ざい庫こが切きれた。

  That item ran out of stock in the morning.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be cut off; be disconnected; break off ties

Covers both literal disconnection, such as a phone call being cut off, and figurative severing of relationships or ties, as in 縁が切れる.

• トンネルに入はいったら電でん話わが切きれた。

  The phone call got disconnected when we entered the tunnel.

• その事じ件けんのあと、彼かれとは縁えんが切きれた。

  After that incident, my ties with him were severed.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

cut well; be sharp

Said of knives, scissors, blades, and similar tools whose edge cuts effectively; often appears as よく切れる.

• この包ほう丁ちょうはよく切きれる。

  This kitchen knife cuts well.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be sharp-minded; be quick-witted; be able

Figurative use for a person who thinks quickly and acts shrewdly; common in the phrase 頭が切れる.

• 彼かの女じょは頭あたまが切きれるので、交こう渉しょうを任まかされた。

  She is sharp-minded, so she was put in charge of the negotiations.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

fall below; be short of; beat a time

Used with a numerical benchmark, especially in potential-like contexts meaning to get below a figure or beat a target time; the benchmark may be marked with を.

• このペースなら、フルマラソンで三さん時じ間かんを切きれるかもしれない。

  At this pace, I may be able to break three hours in the full marathon.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

dry off; drain off

Often used as 水気が切れる, meaning that excess water drains away or a surface becomes free of moisture.

• 野や菜さいをざるに上あげて、水みず気けが切きれるまで待まつ。

  Put the vegetables in a colander and wait until the water drains off.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

curve; veer

Used for a ball, vehicle path, or similar motion curving away to one side; common in sports descriptions.

• 打だ球きゅうは右みぎに切きれて、ファウルになった。

  The batted ball curved to the right and went foul.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

get angry; snap; lose one's temper

Colloquial use, often written キレる, for suddenly losing one's temper or exploding in anger.

See also: キレる

• 何なん度ども同おなじことを言いわれて、彼かれは急きゅうにキレた。

  After being told the same thing over and over, he suddenly snapped.

auxiliary verb, ichidan verb

be able to do completely

Auxiliary verb after the masu-stem of another verb, usually written in kana. It means to be able to finish something completely or carry it through to the end.

• この量りょうなら一人ひとりで食たべきれる。

  If it's this amount, I can finish eating it by myself.

• 難むずかしくて、最さい後ごまで読よみきれなかった。

  It was difficult, and I couldn't read it through to the end.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

shuffle cards

Limited use with cards, especially トランプ. In ordinary modern wording it often appears in ability-style sentences such as トランプが切れる or トランプを切れる.

• まだ片かた手てではトランプがうまく切きれない。

  I still can't shuffle cards well with one hand.