huỷ diệt
Definition
- Verb:
- To destroy completely; to annihilate: To cause something to cease to exist or function by causing overwhelming and total damage.
- To exterminate; to obliterate: To kill or eliminate all living things in a given area or group.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Chiến tranh có thể huỷ diệt cả thành phố. (War can annihilate an entire city.)
- Loài người phải ngăn chặn hành vi huỷ diệt môi trường. (Humankind must prevent acts of environmental destruction.)
- Căn bệnh đó gần như huỷ diệt toàn bộ dân số. (That disease nearly exterminated the entire population.)
Advanced Usage
- Often used in formal, literary, or dramatic contexts to describe catastrophic events, such as war, natural disasters, or existential threats.
- Can be used in compound nouns to form terms for specific concepts of destruction.
Variants and Related Words
Sự huỷ diệt (n): Destruction; annihilation. Refers to the event or process itself.
- Sự huỷ diệt của rừng nhiệt đới là một thảm kịch. (The destruction of the rainforest is a tragedy.)
Hủy diệt hàng loạt (phrase): Mass destruction.
- Vũ khí hủy diệt hàng loạt. (Weapons of mass destruction.)
Synonyms
- Destroy: To damage something so severely that it cannot be repaired.
- Annihilate: To destroy completely, leaving nothing.
- Exterminate: To kill all of a particular group or species.
- Obliterate: To remove all signs of something; to destroy utterly.
Related Idioms
- Sức mạnh huỷ diệt: Destructive power.
- Cơn bão thể hiện sức mạnh huỷ diệt khủng khiếp. (The storm demonstrated terrifying destructive power.)