挫ける
くじける
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Intransitive to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be dispirited; to be crushed (emotionally)
- to be sprained
- to be snapped; to be broken
Kanji
- 挫 crush. Read as くじける.
Example sentences
- 敗れても彼の意気はくじけなかった。
The defeat didn't dampen his spirits. - 彼は、たった一回の失敗でくじけるような男ではなかった。
He was not a man to be disheartened by a single failure. - 彼は時々くじけてしまう。
He sometimes loses hope.
Related forms
- 挫く (くじく) to sprain (transitive partner)