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TOPIK 5verb

짓눌리다

jinnullida [진눌리다]

짓눌려요 · 짓눌렸어요 · 짓눌릴 거예요 · 짓눌린 (+noun)

to be crushed, to be weighed down, to be overwhelmed

Example

그는 업무 스트레스에 짓눌려 잠을 못 자요.

He's so weighed down by work stress that he can't sleep.

Word parts

짓- 'hard, roughly' (as in 짓밟다 'to trample') + 눌리다 'to be pressed'.