N2778/1725

隔へだてる

rarely used kanji formIchidan verbverb (generic)transitive verb

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へだてる

Meanings

to separate (by distance, time, etc.), to isolate, to partition, to divide
to interpose, to have between
to alienate, to estrange

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Example sentences

川かわが二ふたつの村むらを隔へだてている。

A river separates the two villages.

長ながい時間じかんを隔へだてて、旧友きゅうゆうと再会さいかいした。

After a long interval of time, I reunited with an old friend.

壁かべで部屋へやを隔へだてることで、プライバシーが保たもたれる。

By partitioning the room with a wall, privacy is maintained.

海うみを隔へだてていても、二人ふたりの絆きずなは変かわらなかった。

Even with the sea between them, the bond between the two did not change.

誤解ごかいが積つみ重かさなり、かつて親したしかった二人ふたりを隔へだてるようになった。

Accumulated misunderstandings came to estrange the two who had once been close.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)