絶滅 — meaning in English
zetsumetsu
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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.
- annihilative adj Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
- extinct adjective No longer existing, especially referring to a species that has died out entirely.
- extinction noun The complete dying out of a species, group, or way of life.
Senses
絶滅 is used for these senses in English:
- annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- annihilation The state of being annihilated.
- annihilative Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
- extinct (chiefly, biology) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
- extinction The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
annihilate — full definition
- verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- verb Physics: for a particle and its antiparticle to collide and convert entirely into energy.
annihilation — full definition
- noun Total destruction; the act of wiping something out of existence.
- noun Physics: the process by which a particle and antiparticle destroy each other, converting their mass into energy.