Illustration: At a small Japanese plant nursery after a severe storm, the owner stands at the entrance holding one surviving seedling. Every greenhouse behind her has collapsed: bent frames lie across shattered benches, overturned pots, and flattened growing beds.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

壊かい滅めつ

kaimetsu

complete destruction, devastation

Example sentences

都市としはその地震じしんで壊滅かいめつした。
The city perished in the earthquake.
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ヴェスヴィオ火山かざんの噴火ふんかは、ポンペイの街まちを壊滅かいめつさせた。
The eruption of the volcano Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii.
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もう一度嵐いちどあらしが来きていたら、私わたしたちの村むらは壊滅かいめつしていたでしょう。
Another storm, and our village would have been ruined.
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Kanji in 壊滅

壊demolition; breakOnカイ・エKunこわす・こわれる・やぶる
滅destroy; ruinOnメツKunほろびる・ほろぶ・ほろぼす

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