Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a gardener kneels before a seedling tray after a devastating overnight visit by caterpillars. Every compartment contains only a severed stem or a ragged stump; not one leafy seedling survives.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

全ぜん滅めつ

zenmetsu

being wiped out

Example sentences

  1. 部隊ぶたいは全滅ぜんめつした。

    The troop was altogether destroyed.

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  2. その町まちの住民じゅうみんは全滅ぜんめつした。

    The population of the town was wiped out.

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  3. 九州南部きゅうしゅうなんぶは縄文早期末じょうもんそうきまつに喜界きかいカルデラの大噴火だいふんかがあった為ため、ほぼ全滅ぜんめつと考かんがえられる壊滅的かいめつてきな被害ひがいを受うけた。

    The Kikai caldera erupted violently in the southern Kyushu region at the end of the earlier Jomon period; the eruption caused the catastrophic damage to the area which was thought to be virtually annihilated.

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Kanji in 全滅

  • 全whole; entireOnゼンKunまったく・すべて
  • 滅destroy; ruinOnメツKunほろびる・ほろぶ・ほろぼす

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