しきる

Alternative writings: 頻る
Frequency:
1

A suffix-like verb (commonly written in kana as しきる) that follows a verb stem to indicate that an action occurs repeatedly or continuously (e.g. 降りしきる: rain keeps falling).

SuffixU-VerbUsually Kana

Examples

夜半を過ぎても雨が降りしきっていた。

Even after midnight, the rain kept pouring.

冬は雪が降りしきる日が多い地域だ。

In winter it's a region with many days of continuous snowfall.

銃声が鳴りしきて町は不安に包まれた。

Gunshots kept sounding, and the town was wrapped in anxiety.

2

An archaic intransitive verb meaning to occur repeatedly or again and again; now largely literary or archaic.

U-VerbIntransitive VerbArchaic

Examples

昔、この地には疫病が頻ったと記録にある。

Records say that in old times epidemics occurred repeatedly in this area.

争いが頻りに起こり、村人は疲弊した。

Conflicts happened repeatedly and the villagers were exhausted.