갇히다

gachida · [가치다]

be locked up · be shut up · be imprisoned

verbIntermediate

Meanings

  1. be locked up; be shut up; be imprisonedTo become stuck in a certain place or situation without an exit.

Examples from Lessons (3)

If you obsess over perfection, it's highly likely you'll get trapped in existing frameworks, let alone come up with good ideas.

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It is tragic to ignore one's own desires, trapped by the gaze of others and social expectations.

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However, even researchers often get trapped in the framework of prior studies and tend to interpret logic with leaps during the analysis process.

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Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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