抜 (Kanji for extract)

Onyomi

Use your hand to extract fleas out of your friend's matted pelt (FYI you are a gibbon)

( を ) ぬ＊く	I pluck or extract something - pluck a carrot out the ground, pluck out a gray hair, The mouse plucks the thorn out of the lion's paw.If you bleach the color out of cloth or hair, you're 色を抜く. plucking the color out! ★★★☆☆
( が ) ぬ＊ける	something is plucked out ★★★☆☆

腰抜け(こしぬけ)

coward ★☆☆☆☆
腰 (waist) + 抜 (extract) = 腰抜け (coward)

coward - the nuance is someone who becomes paralyzed when the shit goes down. Someone who is too frightened to react.

見抜く(みぬく)

to see through ★☆☆☆☆
見 (look) + 抜 (extract) = 見抜く (to see through)

to see through someone's pretension or their deception.

間抜け(まぬけ)

idiot ★☆☆☆☆ KANA
間 (a period of time) + 抜 (extract) = 間抜け (idiot)

idiot( usually KANA, so one star : *)

	Meaning	Hint	Radical
扱	treatment	REACH (grasping hand)
抜	extract	FRIEND	友

You REACH out for treatment with your grasping hand,

but only your FRIEND will extract your tumors.