滅

Meanings

destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish

ES: extinguirse, apagarse, estropearse, ser destruido, ser devastado, estropear, destruir, devastar, demoler

Common words

• 絶滅ぜつめつextinction, extermination
• 滅多にめったにrarely, seldom
• 滅茶苦茶めちゃくちゃabsurd, unreasonable, nonsensical, preposterous, incoherent
• 全滅ぜんめつtotal destruction, complete destruction, annihilation, being wiped out
• 滅亡めつぼうdownfall, ruin, collapse, destruction
• 滅びるほろびるto go to ruin, to go under, to fall, to be destroyed, to die out, to become extinct, to perish
• 滅ぼすほろぼすto destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin
• 隠滅いんめつdestruction (esp. of evidence), spoliation, suppression

Example sentences

• 部隊ぶたいは全滅ぜんめつした。

  The troop was altogether destroyed.

  Las tropas fueron aniquiladas.

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• 絶滅ぜつめつは進化しんかの一部いちぶである。

  Extinction is part of evolution.

  La extinción es parte de la evolución.

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• 当地とうちでは滅多めったに雪ゆきが降ふらない。

  We seldom have snow here.

  Nosotros rara vez tenemos nieve aquí.

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• 肉体にくたいは滅ほろびるが霊魂れいこんは不滅ふめつである。

  A man's body dies, but his soul is immortal.

  El cuerpo del hombre es mortal, pero su alma es inmortal.

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