滅 miè

extinguish; wipe out, exterminate

DEFINITIONS

  • extinguish
  • wipe out, exterminate
  • to extinguish or put out
  • to go out (of a fire etc)
  • to exterminate or wipe out
  • to drown

WORDS

滅音器 miè yīn qì muffler (of an internal combustion engine)
滅頂 miè dǐng to be drowned (figurative and literal)
滅鼠藥 miè shǔ yào rat poison
瀕滅 bīn miè on the brink of extinction
灰飛煙滅 huī fēi yān miè lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated; to vanish in a puff of smoke
熄滅 xī miè to stop burning; to go out (of fire); to die out; extinguished
生滅 shēng miè life and death
生物大滅絕 shēng wù dà miè jué great extinction of species
相互保證毀滅 xiāng hù bǎo zhèng huǐ miè Mutual Assured Destruction
破滅 pò miè to be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
磨滅 mó miè to obliterate; to erase
種族滅絕 zhǒng zú miè jué genocide
絕滅 jué miè to annihilate; to exterminate; extinction
自取滅亡 zì qǔ miè wáng to court disaster (idiom); to dig one's own grave
自生自滅 zì shēng zì miè to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom)
興滅繼絕 xīng miè jì jué lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom); fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten
苦集滅道 kǔ jí miè dào the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道; also called 四諦|四谛
覆滅 fù miè destruction
誅滅 zhū miè to wipe out; to exterminate
隱滅 yǐn miè to fade away; to vanish; to disappear
雙氯滅痛 shuāng lǜ miè tòng diclofenac painkiller; also called 扶他林
滅破 miè pò destroy and shatter
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