Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- miè
English
- extinguish
- to extinguish or put out
- wipe out, exterminate
- to go out (of a fire etc)
- to exterminate or wipe out
- to drown
- to extinguish; to wipe out
粵語
- 令一樣嘢唔再存在;終結某種狀態
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 滅
- 消滅siu1 mit6
to put an end to
- 毀滅wai2 mit6
to perish
- 滅亡mit6 mong4
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out
- 滅絕mit6 zyut6
to become extinct; to die out
- 破滅po3 mit6
to be shattered
- 滅火mit6 fo2
to extinguish a fire
- 撲滅pok3 mit6
to eradicate
- 殲滅cim1 mit6
to wipe out
- 滅口mit6 hau2
to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret
- 熄滅sik1 mit6
to stop burning
- 覆滅fuk1 mit6
destruction
- 滅門mit6 mun4
to exterminate an entire family
- 幻滅waan6 mit6
(of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish; to evaporate
- 磨滅mo4 mit6
to obliterate
- 滅種mit6 zung2
to commit genocide
- 團滅tyun4 mit6
(video gaming) (of an entire team or party) to get wiped out
- 滅團mit6 tyun4
(video gaming) to wipe out an entire team or party
- 滅聲mit6 seng1
to silence (somebody's voice, opinion)
- 滅除mit6 ceoi4
to eliminate; to kill off
- 絕滅zyut6 mit6
to annihilate
- 斷滅dyun6 mit6
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
- 滅失mit6 sat1
loss (of sth through natural disaster, theft etc) (law)
- 滅火筒mit6 fo2 tung2
fire extinguisher
- 滅火喉mit6 fo2 hau4
fire hydrant; fire hose