倒れる
たおれる
Also written 斃れる, 仆れる
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Intransitive to fall (over, down); to collapse; to take a fall; to topple
- to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to cave in; to crumble; to give away
- to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to break down (e.g. from overwork)
- to die; to be killed (occ. written as 斃れる, 仆れる)
- to go bankrupt (of a company, bank, etc.); to fail; to collapse; to go under
- to be defeated (in a game); to lose
- to fall (of a government, dictator, etc.); to be overthrown
Kanji
- 倒 topple. Read as たおれる.
Example sentences
- 休み取らないと倒れちゃうよ。
If you don't take a vacation, you'll collapse. - ブルータスがシーザーを刺して、シーザーが倒れる。
Brutus stabs Caesar, and Caesar falls. - ちょっと座らないと、倒れそうだ。
I'll drop if I don't sit down. - その老婦人は倒れたまま、起き上がる事はできなかった。
The old woman fell and could not get up. - その老婦人は今にも倒れそうだった。
The old woman seemed ready to fall down at any second.
Common phrases
- 病に倒れる
- 木が倒れる
- 状態で倒れる
- 自宅で倒れる
- 女性が倒れる
- 脳梗塞で倒れる
- 三振に倒れる
- フライに倒れる
- 仰向けに倒れる
- 脳卒中で倒れる
- 脳出血で倒れる
- 銃弾に倒れる
- 根元から倒れる
- 凶弾に倒れる (きょうだんにたおれる) to be shot dead by an assassin
- 後ろに倒れる (うしろにたおれる) to fall backward
Related forms
- 倒す (たおす) to throw down (transitive partner)
Words containing 倒れる
- ぶっ倒れる (ぶったおれる) to collapse
- 倒れこむ (たおれこむ) to collapse
- 行き倒れる (いきだおれる) to collapse on the street (from illness, hunger, exhaustion, etc.)
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