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


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