Meaning
全滅 (ぜんめつ, zenmetsu) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “annihilation”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 8
台風で畑の作物が全滅した
Crops were destroyed in the typhoon.
部隊は全滅した。
The troop was altogether destroyed.
その町の住民は全滅した。
The population of the town was wiped out.
その町の住人は全滅した。
The population of the town was wiped out.
大震災でその町は全滅した.
The town was entirely destroyed by the great earthquake.
増援軍の雑賀衆も白兵戦には弱くほぼ全滅した。
Saiga shu (Ikko groups), which were reinforcement troops, were not good at close combat and totally wiped out.
松くい虫のため、一時松が立ち枯れし、全滅の危機に瀕した。
At one time the trees were blighted by pine weevils, and were in danger of being wiped out.
太平洋戦争の分岐点と記された、我々の海軍機動部隊の捨て身の勇敢さ−G.C.マーシャルthedesperategallantryofournavaltaskforcesmarkedtheturningpointinthePacificwar-G.C.Marshall太平洋戦争末期の1945年3月21日の九州沖航空戦の際、「神風特別攻撃隊第一神雷桜花隊・第一神雷攻撃隊」(ロケット特攻機「桜花(航空機)」と、その母機である一式陸上攻撃機で編成された攻撃隊)は、九州南方沖に迫った米海軍高速空母機動部隊に対する攻撃に出撃したものの、敵の艦上戦闘機部隊の迎撃により全滅した。
"The desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific War" - G.C. Marshall. During the air battle off Kyushu on March 21, 1945, in the final stage of the Pacific War, the First Jinrai Oka Unit and First Jinrai Attack Unit (an attack unit made up of the rocket suicide aircraft "Oka" and its carrier aircraft, the Type 1 land-based attack aircraft) sortied to attack the U.S. Navy fast carrier task force approaching off the south of Kyushu, but were wiped out after being intercepted by enemy carrier fighters.