抹まっ殺さつ

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抹殺する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Physical or metaphorical removal so that nothing remains; often used for deleting records, eliminating evidence, or annihilating a presence.

Deliberately treating an opinion, existence, or fact as if it never existed; stronger than simple neglect.

〈事こと〉を歴れき史しから抹まっ殺さつするto erase something from history
その事じ件けんは歴れき史しから抹まっ殺さつされた。
The incident was erased from history.
事じ実じつを抹まっ殺さつするto deny or suppress a fact as if it never happened
政せい府ふは不ふ都つ合ごうな事じ実じつを抹まっ殺さつしようとした。
The government tried to bury an inconvenient fact.
〈人ひと〉の存そん在ざいを抹まっ殺さつするto erase someone's existence/presence
彼かれは組そ織しきにとって邪じゃ魔まな存そん在ざいを抹まっ殺さつしようとした。
He tried to erase the presence of someone inconvenient to the organization.
〈人ひと〉の意い見けんを抹まっ殺さつするto dismiss someone's opinion as though it doesn't exist
会かい議ぎでは少しょう数すう派はの意い見けんが抹まっ殺さつされた。
At the meeting, the minority's opinion was completely dismissed.

無む視しN3sense 2
無視 is simply ignoring or disregarding something, whereas 抹殺 implies actively treating it as if it never existed at all.
削さく除じょN3sense 1
削除 is the ordinary word for deleting data or text, whereas 抹殺 carries a stronger sense of annihilating something so completely that no trace remains.
排はい除じょN1sense 1
排除 means excluding or removing something from a group or process, while 抹殺 goes further, implying the total erasure of its existence.
隠いん滅めつ
抹殺 means to obliterate or erase something completely (including records or one's existence), while 隠滅 focuses specifically on destroying evidence to escape detection.

抹まっ消しょうN1sense 1
抹消 is a neutral, often administrative deletion (e.g. canceling a registration), while 抹殺 implies a forceful, total obliteration of existence or influence.

Compound of 抹 (rub out, erase) and 殺 (kill). The combination conveys the idea of erasing something so thoroughly that it is as if it were killed.