全滅 – Vocabulary details

全ぜん滅めつ

Meanings

Noun

Verb (する, transitive)

1. total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; being wiped out

この敵てきを全ぜん滅めつさせるぞ。We're going to wipe out these enemies.

Noun

Verb (する, intransitive)

2. total defeat; complete failure

受うけた大だい学がくは全ぜん滅めつだった。I didn't get into any of the universities I applied to.

Kanji used

全

whole

滅

perish

Pitch accent

ぜ

んめつ

Conjugations...Used in: 2133

Composed of

全ぜん

all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total

滅めつ

destruction; ruin; nirvana; cessation (of earthly desires); dying (from overwhelming emotion); being overwhelmed (by something)

Used in vocabulary (1 in total)

一いっ家か全ぜん滅めつ

entire family is affected (disease, etc.); whole family

Examples (8 in total)

期き末まつテストは全ぜん滅めつだった。

I failed every one of my end-of-term exams.

この敵てきを全ぜん滅めつさせるぞ。

We're going to wipe out these enemies.

受うけた大だい学がくは全ぜん滅めつだった。

I didn't get into any of the universities I applied to.

今こ年としの就しゅう職しょく活かつ動どうは全ぜん滅めつだった。

My job hunting this year was a complete failure.

その町まちの住じゅう民みんは全ぜん滅めつした。

The population of the town was wiped out.

台たい風ふうで畑はたけの作さく物もつが全ぜん滅めつした。

The typhoon wiped out all the crops in the fields.

早はやくしないとあの村むらが全ぜん滅めつしてしまう。

If we don't hurry, that village will be wiped out.

とりあえず思おもいつくものは端はしから試ためしてみたが全ぜん滅めつだった。