死滅|しめつshimetsu[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbextinction; annihilation; destruction
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 死滅する（しめつする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 死滅します（しめつします） |
| Negative (nai) | 死滅しない（しめつしない） |
| polite (masen) | 死滅しません（しめつしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 死滅せず・死滅せぬ（しめつせず・しめつせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 死滅した（しめつした） |
| polite (mashita) | 死滅しました（しめつしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 死滅しなかった（しめつしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 死滅しませんでした（しめつしませんでした） |
| Te form | 死滅して（しめつして） |
| Potential | 死滅できる（しめつできる） |
| Passive | 死滅される（しめつされる） |
| Causative | 死滅させる（しめつさせる） |
| Causative passive | 死滅させられる（しめつさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 死滅すれば（しめつすれば） |
| tara | 死滅したら（しめつしたら） |
| Volitional | 死滅しよう（しめつしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 死滅しましょう（しめつしましょう） |
| Imperative | 死滅しろ（しめつしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym絶滅ぜつめつWrittenWritten/formal prose. Focuses on a whole species dying out, as in 「絶滅危惧種」; also eradicating something. 「死滅」 is said of cells or bacteria dying off.
- Synonym滅亡めつぼうWrittenWritten/formal prose. The complete fall of a nation, people, or civilization, as in 「ローマ帝国の滅亡」.
- Synonym絶えるたえるNeutralNeutral. Something that has been continuing ceasing or being cut off, as in 「人通りが絶える」.
- Synonym滅びるほろびるNeutralNeutral native verb for something existing declining and vanishing; more common than 「滅ぶ」.
- Related廃絶はいぜつWrittenWritten/formal prose. Institutions, weapons, and the like being abolished and cut off, as in 「核兵器廃絶」.
- Related滅ぶほろぶNeutralNeutral native verb for the decline and disappearance of a nation or family; carries a literary flavor.
- Related死に絶えるしにたえるNeutralNeutral native expression: a whole family line or kind dying out completely.
- Related滅失めっしつWrittenWritten/formal prose. The destruction or loss of objects; mostly in legal and registration contexts.
- Antonym繁殖はんしょくNeutralNeutral antonym. Living things breeding and multiplying, the opposite of everything dying off as in 「死滅」.
- Antonym増殖ぞうしょくNeutralNeutral antonym. Cells or individuals increasing in number, the opposite of 「死滅」 wiping them out.
Use 「死滅」 for cells, bacteria, or organisms all dying off and disappearing, as in 「細菌が死滅する」 or 「細胞の死滅」. For the extinction of a species use 「絶滅」, and for the fall of a nation use 「滅亡」. 「繁殖」 and 「増殖」 are its antonyms, for increase rather than die-off.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
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