Meaning
自棄 (やけ, yake) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “desperation”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
彼は事業に失敗してやけになっている
He failed in business and has become desperate and reckless.
自暴自棄な病。
An illness born of despair.
自暴自棄になるな。
Never surrender yourself to despair.
自暴自棄に陥ったようだ。
He seemed to have given himself up to despair.
その学生は自暴自棄になった。
The student gave himself up to despair.
失恋して自暴自棄になる青年もいる.
There are some young men who are thrown into despair by disappointment in love.
彼はその事故のあと自暴自棄に陥った。
He lapsed into despair after that accident.
その夜は自暴自棄な気分になって痛飲した.
That night I drank heavily, in a mood of desperation.
宗教は、自暴自棄になった移民達を哀れんで助けを与えた。
The bishop took pity on the desperate immigrants.
司教は、自暴自棄になった移民たちを哀れんで助けを与えた。
The bishop felt pity for the immigrants who were abandoned, and gave them help.
ミセス・フィンクは自棄になってふたたび顔を友だちの胸に埋めた。
Mrs. Fink's face went down again despairingly on the bosom of her friend.
自棄酒をあおるおみよのもとに、新助がいそいそと縮屋の仲間を連れて香炉の代金を工面してやって来る。
While Omiyo is guzzling sake in despair, Shinsuke visits her together with colleagues of Chizimiya, bringing the money for the koro that he has managed to raise.