Illustration: In the rear passage of a Japanese shopping arcade, a fleeing bag thief has just been caught by two police officers. One officer securely holds the thief's upper arm while the other closes handcuffs around the wrists.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

捕とらわれる

torawareru

to be captured

Example sentences

彼かれは捕とらわれの身みである。
He is in chains.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
景親かげちかはその後源氏方ごげんじかたに捕とらわれ処刑しょけいされた。
Kagechika was subsequently captured by the Genji soldiers and was executed.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
捕とらわれたとも、討うち死じにしたともいうが、詳細しょうさいは不明ふめい。
He is said to have been caught or died in battle, but detail is unknown.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 捕

捕catch; captureOnホKunとらえる・とらわれる・とる

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