灭 (滅) miè

1. miè verb to destroy; to wipe out; to exterminate
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (FE '滅' 1; Guoyu '滅' v 2; Unihan '滅')
2. miè verb to submerge
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 淹没 (Guoyu '滅' v 4)
3. miè verb to extinguish; to put out
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 熄掉, for example 滅火 'extinguish a fire' (FE '滅' 2; Guoyu '滅' v 1; Unihan '滅')
4. miè verb to eliminate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 除绝 (Guoyu '滅' v 2)
5. miè verb to disappear; to fade away
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 消失 or 消逝 (Guoyu '滅' v 3)

Contained in

• 灭茬(滅茬) to clear stubble from fields
• 自取灭亡(自取滅亡) to court disaster; to seek one's own destruction
• 大灭绝(大滅絕) mass extinction
• 灭掉(滅掉) to eliminate
• 大义灭亲(大義滅親) to place righteousness before family; ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it
• 剪灭(剪滅) exterminate
• 灭绝人性(滅絕人性) to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
• 灭迹(滅跡) to destroy evidence; to remove all traces
• 灭种罪(滅種罪) genocide
• 歼灭敌人(殲滅敌人) wipe out the enemy
• 沦灭(淪滅) to perish; extinction
• 杀灭(殺滅) to exterminate
• 淹灭(淹滅) to submerge; to flood; to bury
• 灭此朝食(滅此朝食) not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed; anxious to do battle
• 灭族(滅族) extermination of an entire family
• 灭火(滅火) to extinguish a fire; firefighting
• 灭尽(滅盡) to completely destroy
• 相互保证毁灭(相互保證毀滅) Mutual Assured Destruction
• 濒灭(瀕滅) on the brink of extinction
• 隐灭(隱滅) to fade away; to vanish; to disappear
• 殄灭(殄滅) to completely destroy
• 半明不灭(半明不滅) dull (lamplight)
• 击灭(擊滅) to destroy
• 灭失(滅失) loss
• 破灭(破滅) to annihilate
• 灭音器(滅音器) muffler (of an internal combustion engine)
• 明灭(明滅) to flicker; to flash on and off; to brighten and fade
• 假途灭虢(假途滅虢) a short-cut to crush the state of Guo
• 毁灭(毀滅) to perish; to ruin; to destroy
• 灭绝(滅絕) to extinguish; to become extinct; to die out
• 诛灭(誅滅) to wipe out; to exterminate
• 亡国灭种(亡國滅種) country destroyed, its people annihilated; total destruction
• 兴灭继绝(興滅繼絕) to restore the state and revive old families; to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten
• 销灭(銷滅) to perish; to annihilate; to eliminate; to perish; to pass away
• 消灭(消滅) to annihilate; to eliminate; to pass away ; annihilation
• 除灭(除滅) to eliminate
• 勦灭(勦滅) to exterminate
• 灭国弑君(滅國弒君) destroy the state and kill the ruler
• 灭国乃止(滅國乃止) only stopping when the state is destroyed
• 灭虫宁(滅蟲寧) bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
• 覆灭(覆滅) to destroy
• 灭鼠药(滅鼠藥) rat poison
• 不可磨灭(不可磨滅) indelible
• 幻灭(幻滅) (of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish; to evaporate; (of a person) to become disillusioned; disillusionment
• 扑灭(撲滅) to pull out
• 打灭(打滅) to abandon; to spurn; to forsake
• 断灭论(斷滅論) annihilationism
• 剿灭(剿滅) to exterminate

Also contained in

扶清灭洋 、 澹台灭明 、 灭罪

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 39
• 卷二十八下 地理志 Volume 28b: Treatise on Geography 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 35
• 卷二十七下之下 五行志 Volume 27e: Treatise on the Five Elements 5 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 35
• 卷三十六 志第十六: 天文下 Volume 36 Treatises 16: Astronomy 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 34
• 卷十三 志第三 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Astronomy Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 28
• 卷三十二　　　　志第二十二　　天文二 Volume 32 Treatises 26: Astronomy 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 26
• 《楚世家》 House of Chu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 26
• 《晉世家》 House of Jin Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 23
• 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 23
• 僖公 Lord Xi Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳 — count: 23

Collocations

• 师灭 (師滅) 齊師滅譚 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 15
• 遂灭 (遂滅) 遂滅息 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 13
• 人灭 (人滅) 楚人滅弦 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 12
• 尽灭 (儘滅) 盡滅其族 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 6
• 灭舒 (滅舒) 楚人滅舒蓼 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 5
• 吴灭 (吳滅) 吳滅州來 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
• 楚灭 (楚滅) 楚滅黃 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5
• 灭蔡 (滅蔡) 楚師滅蔡 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 灭陈 (滅陳) 楚師滅陳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 子灭 (子滅) 楚子滅蕭 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 3