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


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