겹다
Meanings
Adjective
1. to be too much (for someone); to be excessive; to be beyond one's capacity (of task, situation, etc.)
2. to be overwhelmed (with emotion); to be beyond restraint; to be uncontrollable (of a person)
3. to have already passed (of season, time)
Pronunciation
gyeopda
Examples2
그는 감격에 겨워 말을 여물지 못했다
It was too emotional for him so he couldn't finish his words.
청년은 새벽감성에 겨워 '다정이 병인 양 하여 잠 못 들어 하노라'라는 고시조의 한 구절을 되읊고 있었다.
The young man, overwhelmed by the dawn's sentimentality, was reciting again and again the verse from the old Korean poem: "one cannot fall asleep, for pathos is like a disease".