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没落ぼつらく

ぼつらく botsuraku Play N1 Noun Suru verb Intransitive

Meanings and examples

勢いや地位を失い、衰えて滅びること。 ruin; fall; collapse

Example 1

商売しょうばいでそんな失敗しっぱいをしたらどんな会社かいしゃでも没落ぼつらくする。

Such a business failure would sink any company.

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Example 2

欲よくの深ふかさが彼かれを没落ぼつらくさせた。

His greed brought him low.

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Kanji breakdown

没

N1

drown; sink; hide; fall into; disappear; die

On reading
ボツ、モツ
Kun reading
おぼ.れる、しず.む、ない
Radical
水

落

N3

fall; drop; come down; village; hamlet

On reading
ラク
Kun reading
お.ちる、お.ち、お.とす
Radical
艸
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墜落

N1

ついらく

falling; crashing

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沈没

N1

ちんぼつ

sinking; foundering

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没収

N1

ぼっしゅう

forfeited

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洒落

N1

しゃらく

frank; open-hearted

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洒落る

N1

しゃれる

to joke; to play on words; to dress stylishly