No. 16,592 in Russian
сдирать
To tear off, rip off, or peel off.
In a sentence
Он попытался сдирать старую краску с двери.
He tried to scrape off the old paint from the door.
Here, 'сдирать' is used to express the action of removing something forcefully or by scraping, in this case, old paint.
Она сдирала обои со стен в своей комнате.
She was peeling off the wallpaper from the walls in her room.
In this sentence, 'сдирать' signifies the action of peeling something away, specifically wallpaper.
Я случайно содрал кожу на руке, когда упал.
I accidentally scraped the skin on my arm when I fell.
Here, 'сдирать' is employed to describe the unintended scraping or abrasion of skin, highlighting its usage in a physical injury context.
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