smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
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An old golem made of pure rock had a mid-life crisis at age ninety, deciding to smash his boring life and become a rock star.
The video game character used a powerful move to smash his opponent, a giant stone golem, into ninety pieces.
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to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed
to collapse; to crumble; to decline; to cool (e.g. enthusiasm); to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight)
to become less formal; to throw off reserve; to become affable
to become easy to understand (e.g. a story)
to be worried
to break (into pieces); to smash; to crush; to shatter; to grind (into powder); to pound
to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to frustrate
to simplify; to make easy to understand
pulverization; pulverisation
reducing to pieces; crushing; smashing; demolishing
to smash; to break (into pieces); to shatter; to crush
Usu. as 打ち砕いて
to simplify; to make easy to understand
crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking; breaking up
honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat
Colloquial
trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
Idiomatic expression
to take great pains; to make every effort; to rack one's brains
Idiomatic expression
to be concerned; to worry
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