Illustration: In a Japanese apartment kitchen, a large rice cracker has slipped from a child's hand and struck the tiled floor. Several jagged pieces are still bouncing around the larger fragments, with fine crumbs directly beneath the impact. The child's empty fingers remain open above the wreckage.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

砕くだける

kudakeru

to break into pieces

Example sentences

花瓶かびんは粉々こなごなに砕くだけた。
The vase burst into fragments.
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波なみは岩いわに勢いきおいよく当あたって砕くだけた。
The waves dashed against the rocks.
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そのコップは粉々こなごなに砕くだけた。
The glass was dashed to pieces.
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Kanji in 砕

砕smash; breakOnサイKunくだく・くだける

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