独力

どくりょく
one's own effort

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どくりょく【独力】

◇ → 独力で

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どくりょく【独力】

one's own efforts; single-handed efforts.

●独力で by one's own efforts; on one's own account; for oneself; single-handed(ly); unaided; without help [support]

・すべて独力でやってきた人 a person who has made his way completely on his own

・独力でやる do sth single-handed; 《口》 go it alone

・父が死んだので私は独力でやって行かねばならなかった. My father's death left me to my own resources [to get by on my own].

・(強いものに)独力で立ち向かう take sb on singlehanded

・(リハビリをして) なんとか独力で歩けるようになった. She can now walk under her own power.