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脱する · suru verb (special)

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	脱だっする	脱だっさない
Polite	脱だっします	脱だっしません
Past polite	脱だっしました	脱だっしませんでした
Past	脱だっした	脱だっさなかった
Te-form	脱だっして	脱だっさないで
Desire	脱だっしたい	脱だっしたくない
Potential	脱だっせる	脱だっせない
Passive	脱だっされるalso formal 脱だっせられる	脱だっされないalso formal 脱だっせられない
Causative	脱だっさせる	脱だっさせない
Causative passive	脱だっさせられる	脱だっさせられない
Volitional	脱だっそう
Polite volitional	脱だっしましょう
Imperative	脱だっせ	脱だっするな
Conditional	脱だっせば	脱だっさなければ
Tara conditional	脱だっしたら	脱だっさなかったら

Meanings

suru verb (special), transitive verb

escape from; get out of; break free from

Used for escaping physical confinement, danger, or abstract situations such as poverty, a predicament, or a way of thinking. Often appears in news and formal writing.

囚しゅう人じんが刑けい務む所しょを脱だっする事じ件けんが起おきた。
An incident occurred in which a prisoner escaped from the prison.
彼かれはようやく貧ひん困こんから脱だっすることができた。
He was finally able to escape from poverty.

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Usage patterns

〈事こと〉〉を脱だっするto escape from/overcome (a difficult situation)
会かい社しゃは経けい営えい危き機きを脱だっした。
The company got out of its management crisis.
〈物もの〉〉から脱だっするto break away from (a status or category)
日本にほんは戦せん後ご、後こう進しん国こくから脱だっした。
After the war, Japan broke free from being an underdeveloped country.

Expressions

危き機きを脱だっするescape danger; get out of a crisis

Kanji

脱undress, removing, escape from

Related words

抜ぬけ出だすN1
抜け出す emphasizes quietly slipping out of a place or situation, while 脱する is more formal and often used for escaping abstract dangers or hardships.
逃のがれるN1
逃れる focuses on avoiding or fleeing from something threatening, whereas 脱する stresses getting completely out of a confining state.
脱だっ出しゅつN1
脱出する usually describes a concrete, often urgent physical escape (e.g. from a burning building), while 脱する covers both physical and abstract situations more formally.
免まぬがれるN1
免れる means to avoid or be spared from something bad (like punishment or danger) without necessarily having been trapped in it, while 脱する implies breaking free from a state one was already in.
逃にげるN4
逃げる is the plain, everyday word for running away, while 脱する is formal and typically used for overcoming difficult circumstances.

Opposites

陥おちいるN1
脱する means to escape or get out of a difficult situation, the opposite of 陥る, which means to fall into one.

Written forms

脱だっするUsage99%
Standard kanji spelling; common in news and formal writing.
だっするUsage1%
Kana spelling is acceptable, especially in less formal contexts or when the kanji is not needed.

Etymology

Compound of 脱 (datsu, 'escape, remove') + する (suru, 'to do'), forming a suru verb with the special class inflection 脱する (dassuru). The kanji 脱 carries the core meaning of taking off or escaping.