断つ

Meaning

1. v5tvt
   to sever; to cut off
2. v5tvt
   to suppress; to eradicate; to exterminate
3. v5tvt
   to abstain (from); to give up

Example sentences

• 新聞に飛行機が消息を絶ったと書いてあった。

  I read in the newspaper that contact with the plane had been lost.

• 彼女は自らの命を絶った。

  She took her own life.

• 彼らは食料の供給を断たれた。

  They were cut off from food supplies.