全滅|ぜんめつzenmetsu[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbtotal destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; being wiped out
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbtotal defeat; complete failure
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 全滅する（ぜんめつする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 全滅します（ぜんめつします） |
| Negative (nai) | 全滅しない（ぜんめつしない） |
| polite (masen) | 全滅しません（ぜんめつしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 全滅せず・全滅せぬ（ぜんめつせず・ぜんめつせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 全滅した（ぜんめつした） |
| polite (mashita) | 全滅しました（ぜんめつしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 全滅しなかった（ぜんめつしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 全滅しませんでした（ぜんめつしませんでした） |
| Te form | 全滅して（ぜんめつして） |
| Potential | 全滅できる（ぜんめつできる） |
| Passive | 全滅される（ぜんめつされる） |
| Causative | 全滅させる（ぜんめつさせる） |
| Causative passive | 全滅させられる（ぜんめつさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 全滅すれば（ぜんめつすれば） |
| tara | 全滅したら（ぜんめつしたら） |
| Volitional | 全滅しよう（ぜんめつしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 全滅しましょう（ぜんめつしましょう） |
| Imperative | 全滅しろ（ぜんめつしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym根絶こんぜつWrittenWritten word for eradicating disease, bad habits and the like at the root. 「全滅」usually means living things, troops or crops all dying or failing.
- Synonym殲滅せんめつWrittenWritten word for actively annihilating the enemy. 「全滅」stresses the result — the side wiped out — and also covers crops or plans failing completely.
- Synonym根絶やしねだやしNeutralUprooting something; figuratively eradicating something bad or a whole family line. 「全滅」centers on the result of everything perishing.
- Related撲滅ぼくめつWrittenEradicating harmful things such as disease or crime, as in 「麻薬撲滅」. 「全滅」is not limited to harmful things and can mean one's own forces being wiped out.
- Related駆逐くちくWrittenDriving out or expelling enemies or unwanted species; they are not necessarily destroyed. 「全滅」is total annihilation.
- Related抹殺まっさつWrittenErasing something or denying its existence, or quietly eliminating someone. 「全滅」is an entire group being wiped out.
- Related退治たいじNeutralExterminating pests, monsters or villains, as in 「ゴキブリ退治」. 「全滅」stresses the result of a whole group being wiped out.
- Related鏖殺おうさつWrittenRare written word for killing every last person; crueler than 「全滅」 and used specifically of massacres.
- Related撃滅げきめつWrittenWritten word for crushing and destroying the enemy, mainly in military contexts. 「全滅」does not stress attacking and can describe losses to disasters or total failure.
- Related根こそぎねこそぎNeutralAdverb or noun meaning uprooted or taken entirely, leaving nothing, as in 「根こそぎ盗まれる」. 「全滅」is a whole group perishing or being wiped out.
- Antonym全勝ぜんしょうNeutralWinning every match or against every opponent — the opposite of 「全滅」, total defeat or annihilation.
Use 「全滅」for a whole group being wiped out or a plan failing completely. To actively annihilate an enemy, choose 「殲滅」or 「撃滅」; to eradicate disease or crime, 「撲滅」or 「根絶」; to exterminate pests or monsters, 「退治」.
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