消滅

Meaning

1. nvs
   extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; vanishing; termination; lapse
2. nvs
   annihilation

Example sentences

• もし太陽が消滅したら、あらゆる生き物が死ぬだろう。

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

• 破壊の結果、毎日５０種類もの野生の動植物が消滅していると見積もられている。

  It has been estimated that, as a result of the destruction, fifty species of wildlife are disappearing from the earth each day.

• 赤道近くの狭い地域にある熱帯雨林は、急速にその姿を消しつつあり、２０００年までにはその８０％が消滅してしまうかもしれない。

  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.