全ぜん壊かい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

complete destruction; total collapse

Used for buildings, structures, or objects being completely destroyed, often in disasters. As a suru-verb, it is intransitive: the subject is the thing that is destroyed.

• 地じ震しんで多おおくの家か屋おくが全ぜん壊かいした。

  Many houses were completely destroyed by the earthquake.

• 台たい風ふうの後あと、その橋はしは全ぜん壊かい状じょう態たいだった。

  After the typhoon, the bridge was in a state of total collapse.