引ひき抜ぬく

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引き抜く · godan verb (-ku)

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	引ひき抜ぬく	引ひき抜ぬかない
Polite	引ひき抜ぬきます	引ひき抜ぬきません
Past polite	引ひき抜ぬきました	引ひき抜ぬきませんでした
Past	引ひき抜ぬいた	引ひき抜ぬかなかった
Te-form	引ひき抜ぬいて	引ひき抜ぬかないで
Desire	引ひき抜ぬきたい	引ひき抜ぬきたくない
Potential	引ひき抜ぬける	引ひき抜ぬけない
Passive	引ひき抜ぬかれる	引ひき抜ぬかれない
Causative	引ひき抜ぬかせる	引ひき抜ぬかせない
Causative passive	引ひき抜ぬかせられるalso 引ひき抜ぬかされる	引ひき抜ぬかせられないalso 引ひき抜ぬかされない
Volitional	引ひき抜ぬこう
Polite volitional	引ひき抜ぬきましょう
Imperative	引ひき抜ぬけ	引ひき抜ぬくな
Conditional	引ひき抜ぬけば	引ひき抜ぬかなければ
Tara conditional	引ひき抜ぬいたら	引ひき抜ぬかなかったら

Meanings

godan verb (-ku), transitive verb

Physically pulling something out from where it is embedded, such as a nail, tooth, weed, or cork.

godan verb (-ku), transitive verb

headhunt; poach; lure away

Used when a company or organization actively recruits a talented person away from their current position.

〈物もの〉を引ひき抜ぬくto pull out an embedded object
壁かべに刺ささったくぎを引ひき抜ぬいた。
I pulled the nail out of the wall.
〈人ひと〉を〈場ば所しょ〉から引ひき抜ぬくto headhunt someone away from a company or organization
彼かれはライバル会社がいしゃから優ゆう秀しゅうな社しゃ員いんを引ひき抜ぬいた。
He poached a talented employee from a rival company.

抜ぬくN3sense 1
抜く is the plain, general verb for pulling or taking something out, while 引き抜く emphasizes doing so forcefully from a fixed or embedded position.
スカウト sense 2
スカウトする is the general word for scouting or recruiting talent, while 引き抜く specifically implies taking someone away from their current employer.
抜ぬき取とる sense 1
抜き取る focuses on carefully extracting or removing a single item, whereas 引き抜く suggests a firmer, more forceful pulling motion.
招しょう聘へい sense 2
招聘する is a formal, respectful term for inviting someone to a position, while 引き抜く carries a more aggressive, competitive nuance of poaching talent.
毟むしるN1
引き抜く means to yank something out firmly from where it's fixed, whereas 毟る focuses on tearing surface things like hair or feathers off.

挿さすN2sense 1
挿す means to insert or stick something in, the opposite action of 引き抜く, which means to pull it out.
植うえるN4sense 1
植える means to plant something in the ground, the opposite of 引き抜く when used for uprooting plants.

引ひき出だすN3sense 1
引き出す means to draw out or withdraw (like money or information), while 引き抜く means to physically pull something out from where it is embedded or to poach a person.
引ひき裂さくN1
引き抜く means to pull something out or extract it (like a nail or a person from a team), while 引き裂く means to tear something apart, and the two are easily confused because both start with 引き.

引ひき抜ぬき
headhunting; poaching; hiring away · quick costume change; pulling off outer robe · drawing; cold drawing
引ひき抜ぬき編あみ目め
slip stitch (crochet)

引ひき抜ぬくUsage87%
Standard kanji spelling.
引ひきぬくUsage8%
search-only kanji form
Search-only mixed kanji-kana spelling.
ひきぬくUsage4%
引ひき抜ぬくUsage1%
search-only kanji form
Search-only variant; the okurigana き is omitted.

Compound of 引き (hiki, continuative form of 引く 'to pull') + 抜く (nuku, 'to pull out, extract').