籠る

こもる【籠る】

1 〔外部との接触を断つ〕 shut oneself up; seclude oneself; be confined 《in…》.

●家にこもる shut oneself up [stay] indoors; keep [confine oneself] to one's house [⇒とじこもる, ひきこもる]

・近ごろ彼は家にこもりっぱなしで一歩も外に出ない. Lately, he's shut himself up in the house and never takes a step out-of-doors.

・一室にこもる shut oneself up in a room

・寺にこもる ⇒さんろう

・城にこもる ⇒ろうじょう³ 1

・自分の殻にこもる stay inside to one's shell; eschew contact with others.

●5 日間書斎にこもりきりで原稿を書き上げた. For five days I never left my study and I got the manuscript finished.

2 〔含まれる〕

●風刺のこもった詩 a verse filled [pregnant] with satire

・愛情のこもった手紙 a letter filled with affection

・熱のこもった討論 a heated debate.

●彼の一語一語には熱意がこもっていた. His every word was fraught with passion.

・彼女を説得しようとしてつい言葉に力がこもった. In my eagerness to convince her, I spoke with more vehemence than I had intended.

・彼の声には怒りがこもっていた. His voice was suffused with anger.

・彼の返事には拒絶の意味がこもっていた. His reply contained an implicit refusal.

・彼女の話には実感がこもっていた. There was real feeling in what she said.

3 〔ガス･声などが外にもれない〕

●車内は空気がこもって息苦しかった. The air inside the car was stuffy and hard to breathe.

・彼の話は声がこもって聞き取りにくい. He mumbles his words so that it is hard to get what he is saying.

・台所はカレーのにおいがこもっていた. The kitchen was dense with the smell of curry.

・彼の部屋はいつもたばこの煙がこもっている. His room is always heavy with tobacco smoke.

・体内に熱がこもっている. The fever is (still) persisting internally.

・このスピーカーは低音がこもる. This speaker muffles the bass.