Practice JLPTMeaning
全滅 (ぜんめつ, zenmetsu) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “annihilation”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
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.
部隊は 全滅した。
The troop was altogether destroyed.
その町の住人は全滅した。
The population of the town was wiped out.1944
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.
年第16師団、レイテ島の戦いで全滅。
1944: The sixteenth army division fell in the battle of Leyte.
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.
大震災でその町は全滅した. The town was entirely destroyed by the great earthquake.その町の住民は全滅した。
The population of the town was 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 the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war- 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。
During the air battle off Kyushu of March 21, 1945 in the closing days of the Pacific War, the 'First Jinrai Oka Kogekitai and First Jinrai Kogekitai' (attack units comprised of rocket powered 'Oka' (aircraft) and their carrier aircraft, the Type 1 Attack bomber) launched attacks on the US Navy high-speed aircraft carrier task force which was closing in on the southern offshore, but were intercepted and destroyed by enemy carrier-based fighter units.「