- collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in
- (radioactive) decay; disintegrationphysics
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru
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- collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in
- (radioactive) decay; disintegration
This meaning refers to the physical or structural failure of something, such as buildings, systems, or even societal structures.
This meaning relates to the process of something breaking down or depleting over time, particularly in a scientific context such as the decay of radioactive materials.
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Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.
The bursting of Japan's so-called bubble economy sent shockwaves through international markets.
The People's party, to put it briefly, needed to leave the government before the government fell.
Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993.
As communism has collapsed, capitalism is now accused of trying to "dominate the world."
The church we went past crumbled five minutes later due to a huge earthquake, and more than a hundred churchgoers were buried alive.
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
A man touched down on the moon. A wall came down in Berlin. A world was connected by our own science and imagination.