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Meaning of 灭

Pinyin miè

Radical

火

Strokes

Definition

extinguish

Usage

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灭 miè 〈动〉【本义】: 消灭;除尽【造字法】: 形声。从水，烕(miè)声。简化字“灭”为截取“烕”中下部，被通常附会为会意。 1. 火熄: [En.] extinguish fire; put out the flame. 例: 熄～ (put out the fire). 2. 完，尽，使不存在: [En.] finish; exhaust; make non-existent. 例: ～口 (extinguish claims); ～亡 (perish); 不可磨～ (cannot be obliterated); ～族 (an ancient cruel punishment where a person’s crime led to the execution of their relatives). 3. 淹没: [En.] drown; submerge. 例: ～顶之灾 (disaster of being submerged). 4. 消失，隐没: [En.] disappear; become obscure. 例: 灭抹 (bury or obscure); 灭名 (loss of reputation); 灭身 (lose oneself; self-destruction); 灭没 (become lost; vanish); 灭景 (obscure visibility, referring to reclusion). 5. 熄灭: [En.] extinguish; cause to go out (fire or light). 例: 灭却 (extinguish); 灭息 (put out). 6. 涅没: [En.] alter; obscure; cover up. 例: 灭刺 (to make the writing on a business card obscure); 灭青 (refers to the ancient practice of erasing words from bamboo slips). 引: 1. 《说文》: 灭，尽也。 2. 《尔雅·释诂》: 灭，绝也。 3. 《礼记·乐记》: 国之灭亡无日矣。 4. 《谷梁传·襄公六年》: 家有既亡，国有既灭。 5. 《吕氏春秋·情势》: 以小畜大灭。 6. 杜牧《阿房宫赋》: 谁得而族灭也? 7. 苏洵《六国论》: 六国破灭，非兵不利，战不善，敝在赂秦。 8. 《文心雕龙·明诗》: 秦皇灭典，亦造仙诗。 9. 《战国策·魏策》: 灭韩亡魏。例: 又如: 灭于绛; 一朝而灭; 灭亲 (cut off relations with kin); 灭户 (whole family dies, lineages are severed); 消灭 (cause to disappear; eliminate); 毁灭 (destroy completely); 灭夷 (eliminate); 灭劫 (calamity of destruction).

吞灭 tūn miè

to absorb

寂灭 jì miè

to die out / to fade away / nirvana (Buddhism)

幻灭 huàn miè

(of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish / to evaporate / (of a person) to become disillusioned / disillusionment

剿灭 jiǎo miè

to eliminate (by armed force)

扑灭 pū miè

to eradicate / to extinguish

歼灭 jiān miè

to wipe out / to crush / to annihilate

泯灭 mǐn miè

to obliterate / to die out / to disappear

歼灭战 jiān miè zhàn

war of annihilation

毁灭 huǐ miè

to perish / to ruin / to destroy

毁灭性 huǐ miè xìng

destructive / devastating

浇灭 jiāo miè

extinguish / damp down

消灭 xiāo miè

to put an end to / to annihilate / to cause to perish / to perish / annihilation (in quantum field theory)

湮灭 yīn miè

to destroy / to disappear / annihilation

溃灭 kuì miè

crumble and fall / collapse and perish

破灭 pò miè

to be shattered / to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)

灭绝 miè jué

to extinguish / to become extinct / to die out

熄灭 xī miè

to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished

绝灭 jué miè

to annihilate / to exterminate / extinction

覆灭 fù miè

destruction

灭火 miè huǒ

to extinguish a fire / firefighting

杀灭 shā miè

to exterminate

灭菌 miè jūn

to sterilize

不可磨灭 bù kě mó miè

indelible

灭口 miè kǒu

to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb

诛灭 zhū miè

to wipe out / to exterminate

杀人灭口 shā rén miè kǒu

morganize / silence sb.

灰飞烟灭 huī fēi yān miè

lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke

灭亡 miè wáng

to be destroyed / to become extinct / to perish / to die out / to destroy / to exterminate

灭茬 miè chá

to clear stubble from fields (agriculture)

灭蚊 miè wén

mosquito eradication

灭蝗 miè huáng

Locust

全军覆灭 quán jūn fù miè

Annihilation

天诛地灭 tiān zhū dì miè

stand condemned by God