Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a resident takes down laundry from an old plastic hanger exposed to years of sun and rain. Several clips are faded and covered in fine cracks; one crumbles between her fingers under the light pressure of removing a sock. A newer hanger beside it remains smooth and intact.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

劣れっ化か

rekka

to deteriorate, to degrade

Example sentences

オリーブオイルは劣化れっかしやすい。
Olive oil is perishable.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
人類じんるいは生態系せいたいけいの劣化れっかを防ふせぐことができるでしょうか？
Will humanity be able to prevent the degradation of ecosystems?
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
壁画へきがの劣化れっかはこの時ときに突如始とつじょはじまったものではなく、徐々じょじょに進行しんこうしていたものである。
The deterioration of the mural paintings did not begin abruptly at that time but had gradually increased.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 劣化

劣inferiority; be inferior toOnレツKunおとる
化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける

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