たお
Meanings
Verb (1-dan, intransitive)
1. to fall (over, down); to collapse; to take a fall; to topple
2. to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to cave in; to crumble; to give away
3. to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to break down (e.g. from overwork)
4. to die; to be killed
5. to go bankrupt (of a company, bank, etc.); to fail; to collapse; to go under
6. to be defeated (in a game); to lose
7. to fall (of a government, dictator, etc.); to be overthrown
Kanji used
collapse
Pitch accent
おれ
Top 800
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
to fall flat; to collapse in a heap
to be shot dead by an assassin
Examples (33 in total)
I collapsed from anemia.
He fell to the floor.
Looks like that tree is going to fall down!
They fell one after another.
Was he lying on his back?
The house collapsed in an earthquake.
Tom collapsed from overwork.
He fell and hurt his leg.
The house was on the verge of collapse.
The old man fell down on the ground.
The pillar tilted to the right and fell.
A fallen tree obstructed the road.
The road was blocked by a fallen tree.
The tree had been blown down by the typhoon of the day before.
Mr. Sato collapsed from exhaustion.
The tree fell down by itself.
A fallen tree blocked the path.
Brutus stabs Caesar, and Caesar falls.
He found his father lying in the kitchen.
She was lying face down on the bed.
She fell down and broke her left leg.
He died of a heart attack on the stage.
It was so hot in the stadium that I thought I was going to pass out.
The road was obstructed by fallen trees.
He collapsed at her feet.
The people in the village fell ill one after another.
After the storm, the road was blocked with fallen trees.
The search party found him lying at the foot of a cliff.
He was found lying unconscious on the kitchen floor.
Tom found Mary lying unconscious on the kitchen floor.
Cut down that dead tree, or it will fall down on your house.
The fallen tree got in the way, and I could not get my car out of the garage.
As the door slid open, he almost fell onto the platform.