Illustration: Inside a fenced demolition site on a Japanese residential street, an excavator grips the upper corner of an old wooden workshop. One wall is already gone, exposing roof beams; another section is coming apart under the machine's pull.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

取とり壊こわす

torikowasu

to demolish, to tear down

Example sentences

古ふるい建物たてものを取とり壊こわすことに決きめた。
They decided to pull down the old building.
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私わたしたちが住すんでいた家いえは取とり壊こわされた。
The house in which we lived was torn down.
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彼かれらは塀へいの一部いちぶを取とり壊こわした。
They broke down part of the wall.
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Kanji in 取壊

取takeOnシュKunとる・とり・とり-
壊demolition; breakOnカイ・エKunこわす・こわれる・やぶる

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