to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown

= + : In the elevator's bathroom (e4) Marilyn Monroe (mi) was playing the flute (一) so hot that it is on fire (火) now! Luckily there's a fire extinguisher so that she can put it out (灭).

灭 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).

Characters with 灭 as component

灭 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 灭

to extinguish / to become extinct / to die out
to be destroyed / to become extinct / to perish / to die out / to destroy / to exterminate
to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished
to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke
to commit genocide / to become extinct / extinction of a race
to be devoid of all humanity / inhuman / bestial
muffler (of an internal combustion engine)
to eliminate; to kill off
to clear stubble from fields (agriculture)
bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
to exterminate an entire family
to eliminate / to kill off
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
on the brink of extinction

Sentences with 灭

灭 currently does not appear in any sentence.