capturing alive; live capture
Refers to the act of catching a person or animal alive, or to the captured being itself. Often used in contexts like hunting, warfare, or pest control.
The police captured the criminal alive.
The hunter succeeded in capturing the bear alive.
Standard kanji spelling.
Irregular okurigana usage; the reading いけどり is not obvious from the kanji alone.
Rare variant using the non-jōyō kanji 擒.
Compound of 生け (ike, continuative form of 生ける 'to keep alive') + 捕り (tori, continuative form of 捕る 'to catch').