Illustration: In a family kitchen, a child sits on a low stool beside a cake that has collapsed into a lopsided heap. A mixing bowl and carefully arranged strawberries show how much effort went into it.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

しょげ返かえる

shogekaeru

to be utterly dejected

Example sentences

トムはすっかりしょげ返かえってしまった。
Tom got very depressed.
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母ははに強つよく叱しかられて、子こどもはしょげ返かえった。
The child was utterly dejected after being scolded harshly by their mother.
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旅行りょこうが中止ちゅうしになり、妹いもうとはしょげ返かえっている。
My younger sister is completely dejected because the trip was canceled.
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Kanji in 返

返returnOnヘンKunかえす・かえる

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