けずる
Verb, Transitive
1.
to shave (wood, leather, etc.), to sharpen (e.g. pencil), to plane, to whittle, to pare, to scrape off, to erode
2.
to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.), to curtail, to reduce
3.
to delete, to erase, to remove, to cross out, to strike out
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かれはナイフできをけずってにんぎょうをつくった。
彼はナイフで木を削って人形を作った。
He whittled wood with a knife to make a doll.
しょるいにごじがあったので、それをけずってしゅうせいした。
書類に誤字があったので、それを削って修正した。
There was a typo in the document, so I deleted it and corrected it.
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