- 砕く【くだく】 - 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 
- 砕ける【くだける】 - 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 
- 粉砕【ふんさい】 - pulverization, pulverisation, reducing to pieces, crushing, smashing, demolishing 
- 火砕流【かさいりゅう】 - pyroclastic flow 
- 砕石【さいせき】 - crushed stone, macadam, crushing (rock) 
- 破砕【はさい】 - crushing (into pieces), smashing, cracking, breaking up 
- 腰砕け【こしくだけ】 - collapsing in the middle of a bout, breaking down (while in the middle of something), faltering halfway