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 be shattered / to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
to extinguish a fire / firefighting
to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom)
to obliterate / to erase
to annihilate / to exterminate / extinction
diclofenac painkiller / also called 扶他林
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom) / fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦[ku3], the cause of suffering is desire 集[ji2], emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭[mie4], the way 道[dao4] to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道[ba1 zheng4 dao4] / also called 四諦|四谛[si4 di4]
to wipe out / to exterminate
to fade away / to vanish / to disappear
to court disaster (idiom) / to dig one's own grave

Sentences with 灭

灭 currently does not appear in any sentence.