Extinguish, exterminate, destroy; a tr. ofnirodha, suppression, annihilation; ofnirvāṇa, blown out, extinguished, dead, perfect rest, highest felicity, etc.; and ofnivṛtti, cessation, disappearance.nirodhais the third of the four axioms: 苦, 集, 滅, 道 pain, its focussing, its cessation (or cure), the way of such cure. Various ideas are expressed as to the meaning of 滅, i.e. annihilation or extinction of existence; or of rebirth and mortal existence; or of the passions as the cause of pain; and it is the two latter views which generally prevail; cf. 涅 10 strokes.