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絶つ

たつ

to sever; to cut off; to break off (relations); to give up (a habit); to put an end to

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Examples

  1. 彼は酒を絶った。

    かれはさけをたった。

    He gave up drinking.

  2. その登山者は消息を絶ったままだ。

    そのとざんしゃはしょうそくをたったままだ。

    The climber has remained missing ever since.

  3. 両国はついに国交を絶つに至った。

    りょうこくはついにこっこうをたつにいたった。

    The two countries finally went so far as to break off diplomatic relations.

Common patterns

消息を絶つ
to go missing; to fall out of contact
関係を絶つ
to break off a relationship
後を絶たない
to never cease; there is no end to them

Memory tip

Three たつ verbs sound alike: 絶つ ends a connection, 断つ refuses or cuts through, 経つ is time passing — the corpus sentence filed here (時がたってゆく) was actually 経つ. 立つ is a fourth. Learn each by its object: 消息を絶つ, 退路を断つ, 時が経つ.

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