Illustration: In a Japanese natural-history museum, a child stands before a glass case containing a mounted dodo beside a complete dodo skeleton. Behind them, an unlettered habitat reconstruction depicts an island clearing with abandoned nesting hollows and no living birds.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

絶ぜつ滅めつ

zetsumetsu

to become extinct

Example sentences

  1. 絶滅ぜつめつは進化しんかの一部いちぶである。

    Extinction is part of evolution.

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  2. 象ぞうは絶滅ぜつめつする危険きけんがある。

    Elephants are in danger of dying out.

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  3. 鯨くじらは保護ほごされなければ、絶滅ぜつめつするだろう。

    Unless whales are protected, they will become extinct.

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Kanji in 絶滅

  • 絶discontinue; severOnゼツKunたえる・たやす・たつ
  • 滅destroy; ruinOnメツKunほろびる・ほろぶ・ほろぼす

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