Illustration: In an apartment entrance, a tall umbrella stand is halfway through toppling onto its side after a dog's leash catches around it. One edge of its base has lifted completely off the tiled floor, and umbrellas are beginning to slide out of the mouth.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

倒たおれる

taoreru

to fall over, to topple

Example sentences

木きが倒たおれた。
The tree fell down.
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彼かれは床ゆかに倒たおれた。
He fell down on the floor.
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家いえは地震じしんで倒たおれた。
The house collapsed in an earthquake.
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Kanji in 倒

倒overthrow; fallOnトウKunたおれる・たおす・さかさま

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