Illustration: In a Japanese apartment living room, a father operates a hand pump attached to an overinflated party balloon. At the decisive instant, the balloon's taut shell splits wide open, with torn rubber recoiling outward around the pump nozzle.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

破は裂れつ

haretsu

to burst, to rupture

Example sentences

水道管すいどうかんが凍こおって破裂はれつしたんです。
The water pipes froze and then burst.
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水道管すいどうかんが破裂はれつした。
The water pipe burst.
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地震じしんのため水道すいどうの本管ほんかんが破裂はれつした。
The water mains burst due to the earthquake.
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Kanji in 破裂

破rend; ripOnハKunやぶる・やぶれる・われる
裂split; rendOnレツKunさく・さける

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