搾る

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The spelling is 搾る, read しぼる, and it is a godan transitive verb for pressing liquid out or milking an animal.
• Basic usage: 搾る means to squeeze juice from fruit or extract milk from an animal.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Squeezing fruit by hand and routine milking
  • The forms are 搾りました and 搾ります. The first is a completed action performed on half a lemon by hand; the second is the farm's repeated morning work of milking cows.
• Half a lemon and a farm's morning milking
  • 半分に切ったレモンを手で搾りました。 — I squeezed half a lemon by hand.
  • 農場では毎朝、牛の乳を搾ります。 — The cows are milked every morning on the farm.