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to put an end to / to annihilate / to cause to perish / to perish / annihilation (in quantum field theory)
HSK 6
to wipe out / to crush / to annihilate
HSK 7-9
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to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown
HSK 6
to become extinct; to die out / to lose (sth abstract) completely / to exterminate
HSK 7-9
(video gaming) (of an entire team or party) to get wiped out
to perish / to ruin / to destroy
HSK 7-9
genocide
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
indelible
to blow out (a flame)
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke
destruction
destructive / devastating
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate
HSK 7-9
to eliminate (by armed force)
to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it
to wipe out / to exterminate
to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished
to eradicate / to extinguish
to exterminate
to commit genocide / to become extinct / extinction of a race
to obliterate / to erase
(idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth
to court disaster (idiom) / to dig one's own grave
to massacre / to die out
to obliterate / to die out / to disappear
loss (of sth through natural disaster, theft etc) (law)
(idiom) catastrophic disaster; devastating calamity
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
to sink into oblivion; to bury in obscurity
to extinguish a fire / firefighting
to annihilate / to exterminate / extinction
(of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish; to evaporate / (of a person) to become disillusioned; disillusionment
to submerge / to flood / to bury
(idiom) to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
to eliminate; to kill off
lit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed / anxious to do battle (idiom)
extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment)
rat poison
to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom)
to absorb
(video gaming) to wipe out an entire team or party
to die out / to fade away / nirvana (Buddhism)
life and death
country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
genocide
mutual assured destruction
to commit genocide
bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
mass extinction
to flicker / to flash on and off / to brighten and fade
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom) / fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten
dull (lamplight)
to exterminate an entire family
diclofenac painkiller / also called 扶他林
to eliminate
Support the Qing, annihilate the West! (Boxer rebellion slogan)
on the brink of extinction
great extinction of species
to conquer / to defeat (militarily)
fire extinguisher
mass extinction
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering , the cause of suffering is desire , emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 / also called 四諦|四谛
to clear stubble from fields (agriculture)
to be shattered / to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
HSK 7-9
lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
to sterilize
muffler (of an internal combustion engine)
favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom) / spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
to perish / extinction
to extinguish worries and the sea of grief / nirvana (Buddhism)
to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb
to fade away / to vanish / to disappear


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