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抜く details

Examples

carry through to the end; do all the way through — the subject persists against resistance or hardship until the action is fully complete

苦くるしい練習れんしゅうだったが、最後さいごまで走はしり抜ぬいた。

kurushii renshuu datta ga, saigo made hashirinuita.

The training was brutal, but I ran it through to the bitter end. neutral

もう無理むりかと思おもったけど、最後さいごまで頑張がんばり抜ぬいたよ。

mou muri ka to omotta kedo, saigo made ganbarinuita yo.

I thought it was hopeless, but I stuck it out to the bitter end. casual

彼かれは厳きびしい競争きょうそうを生いき抜ぬき、業界ぎょうかいトップの地位ちいを築きずいた。

kare wa kibishii kyousou o ikinuki, gyoukai toppu no chii o kizuita.

He fought his way through fierce competition and built a leading position in the industry. neutral

Formation

Notes

抜く overlaps with 切る and 込む in this three-way masu-stem intensifier family: 抜く alone implies persistence through resistance or hardship, the one dimension neither 切る nor 込む carries.

Related patterns

Similar

  • 〜切る

    切る claims plain exhaustiveness with no implied struggle (読み切る, every last page); 抜く adds that the subject pushed through resistance or hardship to get there (やり抜く、生き抜く), so 楽らくに抜いた reads almost as a contradiction.

Lookalikes

  • 抜きで

    Same 抜 character, unrelated jobs — the verb 抜く's ますstem intensifies persistence THROUGH an ongoing action (走はしり抜く, push all the way through); 抜きで's 抜き is a noun meaning "omission," pulling an expected element OUT of an event before it starts (朝食抜きで) — one adds effort, the other subtracts an ingredient.