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Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Tract for Destroying Heretical Views (Buddhist treatise by Myoe, ca. 1212 CE)

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

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

working so hard as to ruin one's body; struggling to the point of crushing oneself