Illustration: On the balcony of a Japanese apartment, a child reaches toward a large soap bubble just as it bursts. Only an interrupted curved film and a few tiny droplets remain around the fingertip; the rounded bubble itself is gone.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

消しょう滅めつ

shoumetsu

to disappear, cease to exist

Example sentences

その国くには消滅しょうめつした。
The nation ceased to exist.
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もし酸素さんそがなかったら、すべての動物どうぶつはとうに消滅しょうめつしていただろう。
Without oxygen, all animals would have disappeared long ago.
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日ひが昇のぼると、朝靄あさもやは次第しだいに消滅しょうめつしてしまいます。
As the sun rises, the morning mist gradually fades away.
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Kanji in 消滅

消extinguish; turn offOnショウKunきえる・けす
滅destroy; ruinOnメツKunほろびる・ほろぶ・ほろぼす

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