Norikiru

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乗り切る (Norikiru) is a Japanese godan verb meaning “to weather (a storm, rough seas), to ride across, to sail across, to get through (adversity)”.

Meanings

  1. godan verb, transitive verbto weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to sail across
  2. godan verb, transitive verbto get through (adversity); to weather; to get over; to tide over; to overcome; to survive
  3. godan verb, intransitive verbto load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)

Examples

  • He has the strength to survive the illness.

  • We think we are over the worst.

  • The new coalition government is trying to ride out the storm.

Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).

Kanji in 乗り切る

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