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噛み切る (かみきる): to bite off, to gnaw through — Japanese vocabulary

噛み切る is read かみきる and means "to bite off, to gnaw through". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

噛み切る

Reading
かみきる · kamikiru
Translation
to bite off, to gnaw through
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
かみきるがかみきるが

Example

サメがその男の足を噛み切った。

サメがそのおとこのあしをかみきった。

A shark snapped the man's leg off.

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