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根絶 — meaning in English

konzetsu

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English meaning

  • annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
  • annihilation noun Total destruction; the act of wiping something out of existence.
  • eradicable adj Capable of being eradicated.
  • eradicate verb To destroy or get rid of something completely, especially a disease or problem.
  • eradication noun The complete removal or destruction of something, especially a disease or social problem.

Senses

根絶 is used for these senses in English:

  • annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
  • annihilation The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
  • eradicable Capable of being eradicated.
  • eradicate (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
  • eradication The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

annihilate — full definition

  1. verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
  2. verb Physics: for a particle and its antiparticle to collide and convert entirely into energy.

annihilation — full definition

  1. noun Total destruction; the act of wiping something out of existence.
  2. noun Physics: the process by which a particle and antiparticle destroy each other, converting their mass into energy.

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