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灭
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Definitions
- 1. to extinguish or put out
- 2. to go out (of a fire etc)
- 3. to exterminate or wipe out
- 4. to drown
Example Sentences
1 shown火已經 灭 了。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 灭
to fade away
dull (lamplight)
to stop burning
to exterminate an entire family
life and death
to eliminate; to kill off
bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
to eliminate (by armed force)
to destroy
to submerge
to become extinct; to die out
to extinguish worries and the sea of grief
to perish
extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment)
extinct
favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom)
lit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed
to flicker
to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it
indelible
to massacre
to extinguish a fire
to put an end to
to wipe out
mutual assured destruction
great extinction of species
to be destroyed
on the brink of extinction
muffler (of an internal combustion engine)
to sterilize
(video gaming) to eliminate an entire team
fire extinguisher
fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten
diclofenac painkiller
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
to exterminate
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
to conquer
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
(video gaming) to eliminate an entire team
to perish
mass extinction
to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom)
genocide
to absorb
to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret
loss (of sth through natural disaster, theft etc) (law)
to commit genocide
to eliminate
mass extinction
to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
to eradicate
to be shattered
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you.
to annihilate
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)
genocide
to obliterate
rat poison
destruction
lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner
to court disaster (idiom)
destructive
to die out
country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction
to obliterate
to commit genocide
to wipe out
also called 四諦|四谛[sì dì]
(of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish
Support the Qing, annihilate the West! (Boxer rebellion slogan)
to clear stubble from fields (agriculture)