Word details
죽다
- Pronunciation
- 죽따
- Part of speech
- verb
- Vocabulary level
- beginner
- Homonyms
- 3
- Derivative
- 죽이다01
- Application
- 죽어 [주거 ]
죽으니 [주그니 ]
죽는 [중는 ]
die
For a living plant, animal, or insect to lose its life.
go out; die out
For a fire or light to go out.
get lost; disappear
For the original characteristic to be changed and become indistinct.
turn; become
For a color to lose its original hue or look darker.
become weaker; become smaller
For one's temper, energy, etc., to disappear or die down.
die
For a memory, thought, etc., not to remain in one's head or mind and become forgotten.
break down
For a machine, computer, etc., to stop working.
be captured
To be caught by one's opponent in a match or play.
die; be dead
For a speech, law, thought, etc., not to be influential any more.
be dead
A word that is used to intimidate and threaten another person.
be vehement; be strong; be strenuous
With all one's might or to an extreme degree.
Idioms
죽고 못 살다
die and be unable to live; be dead gone on; be head over heels in love
To indulge in something.
죽기 살기로
risking one's life and death
Very hard; to the utmost extent of one's power.
죽기 아니면 까무러치기
either dying or fainting
An expression used to describe an attitude of a person who runs every risk and makes all-out efforts.
죽기보다 싫다
hate doing something more than dying
To abhor something.
죽었다 깨어도[깨더라도/깨도]
even if one wakes up[awakens] from death
Never ever no matter how hard one may try.
죽으나 사나
regardless of dying or living
In any case; always.
죽은 목숨
a dead life; a living corpse
A situation where one can hardly live on as if one is dead.
죽을 고생을 하다
go through deadly hardships
To go through severe hardships.
죽을 둥 살 둥
as if dying or living; desperately; tooth and nail
To focus on doing only one thing by giving one's life and all.
죽을 똥을 싸다
defecate to death
To spend too much energy in doing something.
죽을 맛이다
taste like a death
To face a very tough situation where one would rather die.
죽자 사자[살자] 하다
do 'let's die' and 'let's survive'
To make all-out efforts at the risk of one's life.
죽지 못해
being unable to die
Without alternative ways; against one's will.
Proverbs
죽은 뒤에 약방문
seek medicine after death; the doctor after death; After death comes a doctor; prescription after death
To come up with a belated measure to remedy something that has gone awry.
죽은 자식 나이 세기
counting the age of one's dead child
An expression meaning that there is no use looking back on somethig that has already happened.