destruction; disruption; (application) crash
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
defeating; crushing; smashing; destroying
bursting; rupture; explosion; breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off
destructive power; destructive energy; destructive force
destructive blast; blowing up; explosion
tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction; annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling on appeal); quashing
breaking off an engagement
failure; collapse; breakdown; (arch.) tear (in clothing, etc.); (arch.) rip; (arch.) split
middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)
travelling (a long and difficult journey) on foot; walking (all the way) across; travelling through; travelling all over (e.g. a country); visiting all the major locations (of a region, etc.)
shameless; infamous; disgraceful
crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking; breaking up
breaking down; defeating; abolishing
extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; solecistic; non-standard; irregular
catastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)
serious damage; heavy damage; being wrecked; thrashing (an opponent); crushing; giving a drubbing
expulsion (of a pupil); excommunication; anathema; expulsion (from a gang)
age 16 (of a girl); pubescence; age 64 (of a man); breaking of the hymen (during sex); female defloration
breaking off (an engagement, negotiations, etc.); cancellation
unheard-of; unprecedented; daring; wild; uninhibited
destructive; catastrophic; disastrous; ruinous; devastating
sabotage; subversive activities
crushing evil; destroying heresy
reading through (a book); finishing (a book)
running the whole distance
starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); clearing an abacus
(with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force
plight; fix; bind; awkward situation; difficult situation; mess
environmental destruction
weapon of mass destruction; WMD
breaking a commandment (usually religious); offense against the Buddhist commandments (offence)
water breaking (during pregnancy)
depraved monk; sinful priest
personal bankruptcy; voluntary bankruptcy
irresistible; unstoppable; indomitable; breaking bamboo
medium damage; modest damage; some damage
crushing evil and spreading the truth
complete destruction; demolition
(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil
bankrupt person; insolvent person
self-destruction; self-sabotage
near bankruptcy; edge of bankruptcy; bumper-to-bumper
breaking out of prison; jailbreak
controlled demolition of buildings, etc. using explosives; explosive demolition
starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); clearing an abacus
myocardial rupture; cardiac rupture; heart rupture; cardiorrhexis; cardioclasis
to be ruined; to fail; to undergo a break-up; to go bankrupt
sudden, wide-spread drop in prices
abandonment of the status quo; destroying the status quo; overthrowing the present situation
breaking (an agreement, promise); cancellation (of a contract)
broken mirror; marital separation; divorce; partially eclipsed moon
adjudication of bankruptcy
tumbledown or dilapidated house
artistic modulations in traditional Japanese performances; opening, middle and climax (end)
mutual assured destruction; mutually assured destruction; MAD
trustee or administrator in bankruptcy
out of tune; (poetic) broken meter
iconoclasm; image breaking
driving characteristics; road handling ability
Clostridium tetani (tetanus bacillus)
nondestructive testing; NDT; nondestructive inspection
uterine rupture; hysterorrhexis; metrorrhexis
economic collapse; financial failure; bankruptcy
Shuhari; three stages of mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, creating one's own techniques
infamous crime or offense (offence)
(ceremonial) bow used to drive off evil; toy bow and arrow
marriage breakup; divorce; engagement breakup
Subversive Activities Prevention Act
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
karahafu; bow-shaped eaves of a gabled roof; undulating gable; cusped gable
rate of destruction; destruction ratio
Saiha; one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar
a broken relationship can never be repaired; a divorced couple are never reconciled; (lit.) a broken mirror will never shine again
wainscoting; wainscotting; wood paneling
disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn
fatigue fracture; fatigue failure
ruptured eye; globe rupture
subversive; subversive element
breaking into a hearty laugh
fracture surface; fracture
Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995)
personal bankruptcy caused by excessive card-loan borrowing
shabby clothes and an old hat
Subversive Activities Prevention Act
bottle breakage; broken bottle
establishing and refuting (a doctrine)
myocardial rupture; cardiac rupture; heart rupture; cardiorrhexis
opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines
shoot-down order (e.g. for ballistic missile)
(girl's arrival at) puberty
in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style
defeating one's opponents one by one; piecemeal defeat; dealing with tasks or opponents individually
person with a defective character
voiceless retroflex plosive
hydrofracturing; hydraulic fracturing; fracking; fraccing
United Nations Special Commission; UNSCOM
unreleased stop; applosive
subversive activities; sabotage
glottal stop; glottal plosive
voiced bilabial plosive; voiced bilabial stop
crushable; breakable; friability
breakthrough (of a contaminant through a respirator cartridge, etc.)
hydraulic fracturing; fracking
guillotine break (coolant loss in a nuclear power plant); guillotine rupture
unruptured cerebral aneurysm
ballistic-missile shoot-down order; order to shoot down a ballistic missile
fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch, a broken mirror can not be made to shine; what's done is done; there's no use crying over spilled milk
ruptured internal organs; visceral rupture; rupture of an internal organ
bargeboard; vergeboard; gableboard
breaking down antiquated notions; abandoning old-time ways; correcting long-standing abuses
hebephrenia; disorganized schizophrenia (disorganised)
staining; spoiling; soiling; defacing; damage