覆没 | fù mò | annihilated / capsized | |
破灭 | pò miè | to be shattered / to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc) | |
灰飞烟灭 | huī fēi yān miè | lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke | |
亡国灭种 | wáng guó miè zhǒng | country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom) / total destruction | |
长平之战 | Cháng píng zhī zhàn | Battle of Changping of 260 BC, at which the Qin army 秦軍|秦军[Qin2 jun1] encircled and annihilated a Zhao army of 400,000 |