Illustration: In the courtyard of a once-prosperous merchant's residence, a former owner in a carefully patched kimono watches the last fine lacquer chest being carried away. Behind him, cracked plaster, an empty storehouse, and an unkempt ornamental pond reveal prolonged decline.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

没ぼつ落らく

botsuraku

downfall, decline

Example sentences

商売しょうばいでそんな失敗しっぱいをしたらどんな会社かいしゃでも没落ぼつらくする。
Such a business failure would sink any company.
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欲よくの深ふかさが彼かれを没落ぼつらくさせた。
His greed brought him low.
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彼かれはその経歴けいれきの絶頂ぜっちょうにあった時とき、スキャンダルが起おこって彼かれを没落ぼつらくさせた。
When he was at the acme of his career, a scandal brought about his downfall.
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Kanji in 没落

没drown; sinkOnボツ・モツKunおぼれる・しずむ・ない
落fall; dropOnラクKunおちる・おち・おとす

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