退治

Meaning

1. nvsvt
   extermination; elimination; eradication; destruction; suppression; subjugation; getting rid of; stamping out; wiping out; rooting out
2. nvsvt
   renouncing worldly desires (in order to concentrate on Buddhist teachings)
3. nvsvt
   curing (an illness)

Example sentences

• しかも初陣があのドラゴン退治！

  What's more, our first battle is to defeat that dragon!

• 彼はシロアリを退治する計画を考案しようとした。

  He tried to devise a plan for getting rid of termites.

• 彼はありを退治しようと思った。

  He tried to get rid of the ants.