Vocabulary

消滅

extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; vanishing; termination; lapse

noun suru-verb vi
freq #10

Example sentences

The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.

The tiger is a vanishing species.

Old traditions are crumbling away.

If the sun were to go out, all living things would die.

The nation ceased to exist.

If the sun were to go out, all living things would die.