滅

Meaning

滅 centers on complete destruction: something being ruined, overthrown, or perishing entirely. The water radical suggests extinguishing or washing away until nothing remains.

• 滅茶苦茶めちゃくちゃ
  N3

  absurd; unreasonable; nonsensical; preposterous; incoherent

• 消滅しょうめつ
  N1

  extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; vanishing; termination; lapse

• 絶滅ぜつめつ
  N3

  extinction; extermination

• 全滅ぜんめつ
  N1

  total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; being wiped out

• 壊滅かいめつ

  (complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation

• 滅ぼすほろぼす
  N1

  to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin

• 滅亡めつぼう
  N1

  downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction

• 破滅はめつ
  N1

  ruin; destruction; fall

• 滅多めった
  N1

  thoughtless; reckless; careless; rash

• 滅ぶほろぶ

  to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct; to perish

• 撲滅ぼくめつ
  N1

  eradication; extermination; destruction; suppression

• 殲滅せんめつ

  annihilation; extermination; (total) destruction; wiping out

• 点滅てんめつ
  N1

  switching on and off (of a light); flashing; blinking; flickering

• 自滅じめつ
  N1

  self-destruction; ruining oneself

• 滅多にめったに
  N3

  rarely; seldom

• 滅びるほろびる
  N2

  to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct; to perish

• 不滅ふめつ

  immortal; undying; indestructible

• 死滅しめつ

  extinction; annihilation; destruction

• 隠滅いんめつ

  destruction (esp. of evidence); spoliation; suppression

• 幻滅げんめつ

  disillusionment; disillusion; disenchantment

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