| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 崩壊 | ほうかい | collapse, crumbling, breaking down, caving in; decay (physics) |
| 破壊 | はかい | destruction, disruption; (application) crash |
| 壊滅 | かいめつ | destruction, annihilation, devastation, catastrophe |
| 壊す | こわす | to break, to destroy, to demolish; to wreck, to ruin, to spoil, to damage; to break (a bill, etc.) |
| 壊れる | こわれる | to be broken, to break; to fall through, to come to nothing |
| 損壊 | そんかい | damage, destruction |
| 取り壊し | とりこわし | demolition, pulling down, destruction, dismantling |
| 倒壊 | とうかい | destruction, collapse |
| 取り壊す | とりこわす | to demolish, to tear or pull down |
| 壊死 | えし | necrosis |