陥る【おちいる】
Frequency rank: 3,230. – 3,232.
- to fall into (e.g. a hole)
- to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.)
- to fall into (a trap, etc.)
- to fall; to surrender; to capitulate
Godan verb with 'ru' ending; intransitive verb
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Generated definitions (experimental)
- to fall into (e.g. a hole)
- to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.)
- to fall into (a trap, etc.)
- to fall; to surrender; to capitulate
This meaning is used when someone physically or metaphorically falls into a hole or a similar situation.
This meaning is used when someone falls into chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, or similar negative situations.
This meaning is used when someone falls into a trap or a similar situation that was set up by someone else.
She fell into the trap.
This meaning is used when someone falls, surrenders, or gives up in a battle, argument, competition, or similar situation.
In the end, they fell to the enemy.
Generated collocations (experimental)
おちいる陥るわな罠to fall into a trapきき危機におちいる陥るto fall into crisisこんらん混乱におちいる陥るto fall into chaosうつびょううつ病におちいる陥るto fall into depressionこんなん困難におちいる陥るto fall into difficultiesじれんまジレンマにおちいる陥るto fall into a dilemmaびょうき病気におちいる陥るto fall illぜつぼう絶望におちいる陥るto fall into despairしきんくり資金繰りにおちいる陥るto fall into financial difficultiesさらなるもんだい問題におちいる陥るto fall into further problems
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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Obstetric care in crisis as the number of obstetricians continues to fall.
I didn't know what was what. The inside of my head had gone to panic mode and I couldn't get things straight.
Small enterprises are feeling the squeeze of inflation.
4. ひっし必死でかんがえた考えたきかく企画はきゃっか却下、いっしょうけんめい一生懸命つくった作ったほん本はうれない売れない。やました山下さんははっぽうふさがり八方塞がりのじょうたい状態におちいっている陥っている。
Yamashita is stuck with no way out. His well-thought-out project was rejected and the books he worked really hard on aren't selling.
7. かのじょ彼女はろまんてぃっくロマンティックになっていたので、にんげん人間はどこであれどこかかたすみ片隅にすむ住むべきところをみつけ見つけ、そのまわり周りにじぶん自分のぜんじんせい全人生をととのえて整えていくべきだということをうけいれる受け入れるようなじゅどうてき受動的なせいしんじょうたい精神状態にまだおちいっていなかった陥っていなかったのである。
Now Marina was a romantic; she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.
The bullet penetrated his chest, leaving him in critical condition.