湮灭

湮滅

yānmiè

verb #24,224

Meanings

1 to annihilate
2 to obliterate
3 to vanish without a trace

Characters

to submerge / to be lost

to extinguish / to destroy

Examples

粒子与反粒子相遇时会发生湮灭。

Lìzǐ yǔ fǎnlìzǐ xiāngyù shí huì fāshēng yānmiè.

Annihilation occurs when a particle meets its antiparticle.

那段历史几乎被湮灭在岁月中。

Nà duàn lìshǐ jīhū bèi yānmiè zài suìyuè zhōng.

That piece of history was nearly obliterated by the passage of time.

他的名字在战争中湮灭了。

Tā de míngzì zài zhànzhēng zhōng yānmiè le.

His name was lost to oblivion in the war.

Tips

usage

湮灭 is used both in physics (matter-antimatter annihilation) and literary contexts (to be erased by time or history). The physics sense is the more technical one.

Stroke Order

湮 yān

灭 miè