suffix, godan verb (-ru)
do ... incessantly; do ... hard
Attaches to the -masu stem of a verb to express doing that action continuously, intensely, or without stopping. Common in literary or descriptive contexts.
See also: 降りしきる
雨が降りしきる中、彼は歩き続けた。
He kept walking in the incessantly falling rain.
雪が降りしきる夜だった。
It was a night of snow falling without pause.
godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb
happen repeatedly; occur over and over
Archaic intransitive verb meaning something occurs repeatedly. Not used in modern Japanese outside of classical texts.
古文では「しきる」が「繰り返し起こる」の意で使われることがある。
In classical Japanese, しきる can be used to mean 'happens repeatedly'.