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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

  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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