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ホウカイ
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in
At this rate, the building itself could collapse.
2. (radioactive) decay; disintegration
Alt. forms
崩ほう壊かい
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崩ほう潰かい
ホウカイ
Pitch accent
ホ
ウカイ
Conjugations...Used in: 3
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse
shape decomposition; gestaltzerfall
family breakdown; family disintegration; collapse of one's family
23 more...
Examples (19 in total)
If things continue like this, the plan will collapse.
The parliament collapsed long ago.
The Tudor Dynasty fell in the year 1603.
The wall began to collapse all at once.
The news was all about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
His regime is bound to collapse.
The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989.
The bridge couldn't sustain the force of the strong current and collapsed.
At this rate, the building itself could collapse.
The building crumbled to pieces three years ago.
It's truly a spectacular collapse.
All the scaffolding that had been on the verge of collapse was destroyed.
The dam burst and water flooded the valley.
The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.
It had not yet reached the point of collapse, but the situation was serious.
If the top falters, the whole organization could collapse.
The bursting of Japan's so-called bubble economy sent shock waves through international markets.
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
His flawlessly ordered life collapsed when his drug-addict brothers appeared.