Illustration: At a fenced demolition site on a residential Japanese street, an excavator's crushing attachment closes through the corner of an empty concrete garage. The wall fractures into large disconnected chunks, exposing bent reinforcing bars, while the roof edge collapses into the growing rubble below.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

破は壊かい

hakai

to destroy

Example sentences

その台風たいふうは多おおくの家いえを破壊はかいした。
The typhoon destroyed many houses.
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その町まちは戦争中せんそうちゅうに破壊はかいされた。
The town was destroyed during the war.
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台風たいふうは破壊はかいの跡あとを残のこして行いった。
The typhoon left behind a trail of destruction.
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Kanji in 破壊

破rend; ripOnハKunやぶる・やぶれる・われる
壊demolition; breakOnカイ・エKunこわす・こわれる・やぶる

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