灭 miè — to extinguish; to put out; to go out
灭
Level 1 · Common HSK 6 #223
Traditional:
滅
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Basic definition
Related words
- 消灭 to eliminate; to wipe out
- 毁灭 to destroy; to ruin
- 灭亡 to perish; to become extinct
- 灭绝 to extinguish/extinct/to die out
- 熄灭 to extinguish; to go out
- 扑灭 to eradicate; to extinguish; to stamp out; to put an end to; to wipe out; to que
- 灭火 to put out a fire
- 破灭 to destroy
- 歼灭 to annihilate; to wipe out
- 毁灭性 destructive; devastating
- 泯灭 to vanish; to die out
- 剿灭 to exterminate; to wipe out; to annihilate; to destroy
- 灭顶之灾 a disaster of catastrophic proportions; a calamity that wipes one out
- 灭菌 to sterilize; to kill germs
- 覆灭 destruction; annihilation
- 幻灭 to disillusion/disillusionment/vanishing (illusions, hopes, aspirations etc)
- 灭顶 to be drowned; to reach the top of the head
- 磨灭 to obliterate/to erase
- 自生自灭 to grow and perish on its own; to be left to fend for itself
- 灭火器 fire extinguisher