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崩ほう壊かい
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Meanings
Noun
Suru verb
Intransitive verb
1. collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in
2. (radioactive) decay; disintegration
Kanji used
崩crumble壊break
Pitch accent
ほうかい
Used in vocabulary
核かく崩ほう壊かい
nuclear decay; nuclear disintegration; karyorrhexis (destructive fragmentation of a dying cell's nucleus)
Noun
価か格かく崩ほう壊かい
price destruction
Noun
金きん融ゆう崩ほう壊かい
financial collapse
Noun
経けい済ざい崩ほう壊かい
economic collapse; economic meltdown
Noun
崩ほう壊かい寸すん前ぜん
on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse
No-adjective
稀き崩ほう壊かい
rare decay
Noun
細さい胞ぼう崩ほう壊かい
cytolysis; breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane
Noun
崩ほう壊かい系けい列れつ
decay chain; decay series
Noun
原げん子し核かく崩ほう壊かい
nuclear decay
Noun
放ほう射しゃ性せい崩ほう壊かい
radioactive decay
Noun
重じゅう力りょく崩ほう壊かい
gravitational collapse
Noun
学がっ級きゅう崩ほう壊かい
class disruption (e.g. due to discipline problems); classroom chaos
Noun
Examples19
The Tudor Dynasty fell in the year 1603.
This incident led the movement to collapse.
His regime is bound to collapse.
The news was all about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Even the mightiest of empires comes to an end.
The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.