compound verb with ~切る (do completely)

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Compound verbs ending in ~切る, where the suffix adds the meaning 'to do completely / to the very end / to finish doing': 使い切る ('use up'), 食べ切る ('finish eating'), 走り切る ('run all the way'), 泳ぎ切る ('swim the whole way'), 読み切る ('read all the way through'), 言い切る ('state definitively'). A productive pattern that attaches to most action verbs. Distinct from the literal 切る ('to cut').

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