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    3. 掃討

    掃討

    掃そう討とう

    cleaning up (enemy remnants)

    KMT8News #23+1Noun, Participle, Verb, TransitiveMilitaryKanji Vocab21 strokes

    掃蕩掃盪剿討掃とう

    そうとう

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    cleaning up (enemy remnants), sweeping clean (of opponents), mopping up

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    警けい察さつは犯はん罪ざい組そ織しきの掃そう討とう作さく戦せんを開かい始しした。

    The police launched an operation to sweep up criminal organizations.

    KMT7Politics & LawCore Concepts
    敵てきの残ざん党とうを掃そう討とうするのに時じ間かんがかかった。

    It took time to mop up the enemy remnants.

    KMT8MilitaryHistory
    部ぶ隊たいはゲリラ勢せい力りょくの掃そう討とう任にん務むに就ついた。

    The unit undertook a mission to sweep out guerrilla forces.

    KMT8MilitaryPolitics & Law
    政せい府ふは汚お職しょくの掃そう討とうを公こう約やくに掲かかげた。

    The government pledged to eradicate corruption.

    KMT9Politics & LawBusiness & Finance
    掃そう討とう作さく戦せんは、地ち域いきの治ち安あん回かい復ふくに貢こう献けんした。

    The mopping-up operation contributed to restoring peace and order in the region.

    KMT9MilitaryPolitics & Law

    Kanji that make up this word

    掃
    は.く…(3)
    sweep・brush
    討
    う.つ…(1)
    chastise・attack・defeat・destroy・conquer
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