剥ぐ

verb (godan)はぐ · hagu

1. Englishto tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off

   • 少年は木の皮を剥いだ。The boy stripped a tree of the bark.

2. Englishto strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of

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