陥落

かんらく

subsidence

#8,883

Meanings

  1. noun, takes する, intransitive subsidence; sinking; cave-in; collapse; falling in
  2. fall (of a city, fortress, etc.); surrender
  3. fall (in position, rank, etc.); demotion
  4. colloquial giving in (to someone's persuasion); yielding; being convinced

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In sentences

パリは1940年としに陥落かんらくした。 Paris fell in 1940. #197843