憑く | Japanese meaning

憑く【つく】

Frequency rank: 11,470. – 11,489. (for form つく: 437.)

Godan verb with 'ku' ending; intransitive verb

to possess; to hauntas ～に憑くsee also 付く【つく】

Forms

憑く【つく】Frequency rank: 11,470. – 11,489.
つくFrequency rank: 437.

Generated definitions (experimental)

to possess; to haunt

This word is used to describe when a spirit or ghost possesses a person or place, or when an unexplainable feeling haunts someone.

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She claimed that she was possessed by an evil spirit.

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The ruins are haunted by an eerie atmosphere.

Generated collocations (experimental)

to be possessedto take possession (of a person)to be haunted by an evil spiritto be possessed by a deityto exorcise a spiritto have a spirit attached to (someone)