深しん刻こく化か

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深刻化する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Describes a situation, problem, or condition worsening or becoming more severe. Often used with social issues, conflicts, or crises.

〈事こと〉が深しん刻こく化かするfor a problem/situation to become more serious
環かん境きょう問もん題だいが深しん刻こく化かしている。
Environmental problems are becoming more serious.
〈事こと〉の深しん刻こく化かを防ふせぐto prevent a problem from getting more serious
早はやめに対たい策さくを取とり、被ひ害がいの深しん刻こく化かを防ふせいだ。
We took countermeasures early and prevented the damage from getting worse.
〈事こと〉の深しん刻こく化かが懸け念ねんされるthere are concerns that a problem will get more serious
少しょう子し化かの深しん刻こく化かが懸け念ねんされている。
There are concerns that the declining birthrate will become an even more serious problem.

深しん刻こくN3
深刻 describes a situation as already serious, while 深刻化 describes the process of a situation becoming serious.
悪あっ化かN2
悪化 is a general term for a situation worsening, while 深刻化 stresses that it is reaching a critical or grave level.
激げき化か
激化 focuses on conflicts or activities intensifying in intensity, whereas 深刻化 focuses on a problem becoming grave in nature.
重おもる
深刻化する describes a problem or situation becoming more serious, a modern alternative to the dated 重る in this sense.

改かい善ぜんN3
改善 means a situation improves, the opposite of 深刻化, in which it worsens into something more serious.

Compound of 深刻 (serious, grave) and 化 (-ization, change into). The suffix 化 is productive and derives nouns/suru verbs indicating transformation.