Illustration: In an apartment living room, an adult carrying folded towels accidentally steps directly onto a child's wooden toy bridge. The sole is still pressing down as the thin bridge deck splits and one support falls outward. The adult freezes with widened eyes, one towel sliding from the stack.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

壊こわす

kowasu

to break, to destroy

Example sentences

誰だれがこの窓まどを壊こわしたの？
Who broke this window?
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彼かれは花瓶かびんをわざと壊こわした。
He broke the flower vase on purpose.
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彼かれはその箱はこを壊こわした。
He crushed the box.
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Kanji in 壊

壊demolition; breakOnカイ・エKunこわす・こわれる・やぶる

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