滅亡めつぼう (metsubou)

downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction

  • JLPT N1
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Meaning

滅亡 (めつぼう, metsubou) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 12

その 文明ぶんめいは 何なん 千せん 年ねんも 前まえに 滅亡めつぼうした

The civilization was destroyed thousands of years ago.

年室町幕府が滅亡。

1573: The Muromachi bakufu fell.

壇ノ浦で平家滅亡。

The Heike family fell in Dannoura.

人類は滅亡するだろう。

Man would perish.1573