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ハメツ
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. ruin; destruction; fall
Alt. forms
破は滅めつ
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ハメツ
Pitch accent
ハ
メツ
Conjugations...Used in: 2
Composed of
middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)
destruction; ruin; nirvana; cessation (of earthly desires); dying (from overwhelming emotion); being overwhelmed (by something)
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
destructive; catastrophic; disastrous; ruinous; devastating
Examples (6 in total)
Money ruins many.
The world is on the verge of destruction.
The war brought ruin to the country.
I hear his business is on the verge of ruin.
It is not his illness that ruined him so much as his idleness.
Nuclear weapons will bring about nothing but the ruin of mankind.