to be smashed, to go bankrupt
Example sentences
彼は全力をふりしぼってつぶれた車からはい出した。
He used all his strength to crawl out of the wrecked car.
彼の家は今にもつぶれそうなしろものだ。
His house is a tumbledown affair.
戦争の勃発で彼らの計画は完全につぶれた。
Their plans blew up when the war broke out.
More N2 vocabulary
- 係わるto concern oneself in, to have to do with, to affect, to influence, to stick to (opinions)
- 刺さるto stick, to be stuck
- 意地悪malicious, ill-tempered, unkind
- 過程process
- 南米South America
- 実力merit, efficiency, arms, force