Illustration: During heavy rain in an older apartment, a resident has already placed a bucket beneath a stained ceiling leak. Now the wet plaster sags farther, a fresh crack spreads outward, and several new streams fall beyond the bucket onto the floor.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

悪あっ化か

akka

to worsen, to deteriorate

Example sentences

  1. 年々公害ねんねんこうがいが悪化あっかする。

    From year to year, pollution is worsening.

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  2. 天候てんこうは午後ごごに悪化あっかし始はじめた。

    The weather began to take a turn for the worse in the afternoon.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれの容体ようだいが悪化あっかした。

    His condition changed for the worse.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 悪化

  • 悪bad; viceOnアク・オKunわるい・わる-・あし
  • 化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける

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