傾けい倒とう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

devotion; concentration; ardent admiration

Used for intense intellectual or artistic devotion: being absorbed in a subject, thinker, or work. Often takes に, as in 〜に傾倒する.

• 彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、哲てつ学がくに傾けい倒とうしていた。

  In his youth, he was deeply devoted to philosophy.

• 彼かの女じょはピカソに傾けい倒とうし、作さく品ひんを集あつめ始はじめた。

  She became an ardent admirer of Picasso and started collecting his works.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

tipping over and collapsing

Archaic original meaning; refers to literal physical collapse or overturning. Not used in modern Japanese outside historical or literary contexts.

• 古こ文ぶん書しょには、地じ震しんで家か屋おくが傾けい倒とうしたと記しるされている。

  An old document records that houses tipped over and collapsed in the earthquake.