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扑灭

pū miè

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 撲滅

扑灭 (pū miè) means "to eradicate; to extinguish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 扑灭 means

1. to eradicate
2. to extinguish

The characters in 扑灭

• 扑pūto throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies
• 灭mièto extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out

Example sentences

• 消防队员把火扑灭了。
  Xiāofángduìyuán bǎ huǒ pūmiè le.
  The fire fighters put out the fire.
• 蜡烛出去，而不必被扑灭。
  The candle went out instead of having been put out.
• 要即时扑灭那火灾并不容易。
  Yào jíshí pūmiè nà huǒzāi bìngbù róngyì.
  It was not easy to put out the fire at once.
• 汤姆试着用灭火器把火扑灭。
  Tāng mǔ shì zhe yòng mièhuǒ qì bǎ huǒ pūmiè.
  Tom used a fire extinguisher to try and put the fire out.
• 消防队员很快就把火扑灭了。
  Xiāofángduìyuán hěn kuài jiù bǎ huǒ pūmiè le.
  The firemen soon put out the fire.

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