取り憑く | Japanese meaning

取り憑く【とりつく】

Frequency rank: 25,241. – 25,394.

Godan verb with 'ku' ending; intransitive verb

to take hold of; to possess; to hauntof a demon, thought, emotion, etc.see also 取り付く【とりつく】

Forms

取り憑く【とりつく】Frequency rank: 25,241. – 25,394.
とりつくFrequency rank: 37,313. – 37,771.

Generated definitions (experimental)

to take hold of; to possess; to haunt

This word is used to describe a situation when something like a spirit or emotion influences or controls a person, or when a particular feeling or presence seems to linger.

よう。

It seems that he is possessed by an evil spirit.

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She is haunted by sadness.

Generated collocations (experimental)

to be possessedto be possessed by an evil spiritpossession (by a spirit)to be haunted by a vengeful spirita god that possessesto be haunted by lonelinessto be possessed by an obsessionto be haunted by bad habitsas if possessedto be haunted by a dream

Example sentences

1 result

1. 。

Ghosts can possess people.

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