<entry id="2285064" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1170900</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>隠滅</keb>
<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf19</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>湮滅</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>堙滅</keb>
<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>いんめつ</reb>
<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf19</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>えんめつ</reb>
<re_restr>湮滅</re_restr>
<re_inf>&ik;</re_inf>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<pos>&vs;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<field>&law;</field>
<gloss>destruction (esp. of evidence)</gloss>
<gloss>spoliation</gloss>
<gloss>suppression</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<pos>&vs;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<gloss>hiding</gloss>
<gloss>concealment</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2013-07-10 22:25:09" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Email from a lawyer about appropriate glosses. It seems to be used almost entirely in legal/evidence contexts.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>GG5, etc.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,1 +17,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;destruction&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;field&gt;&amp;law;&lt;/field&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;destruction (e.g. evidence)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;spoliation&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-07-12 11:45:07" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>based on the dictionary definitions I've listed I wanted to 
add "disappearing without a trace" to the definitions, but 
I'm not sure this is in common usage, the first page of hits 
on google seemed all to relate to the destruction of 
evidence...
_
daijr merges 湮滅・▼堙滅 but has 隠滅 in a separate entry, 
though its 2nd def is just a redir to 湮滅・▼堙滅
daijs merges all
nikk doesn't have 堙滅 but merges the other two</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijs: (1st sense) " 跡形もなく消えてしまうこと。また、消すこと。「証拠を―す
る」"
nikk: (1st sense) "うずもれてなくなること。あとかたもなく消えうせること。また、
消してしまうこと。消滅。
daijr: (2nd sense) うずもれて跡形もなくなること。すっかりなくしてしまうこと。</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +8,6 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;堙滅&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;湮滅&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -18,1 +24,1 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;destruction (e.g. evidence)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;destruction (esp. of evidence)&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -22,0 +28,6 @@
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;vs;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;hiding&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;concealment&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-07-14 22:54:55" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>GG5 (only has えんめつ for 湮滅, and xrefs to 隠滅)</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -20,0 +20,4 @@
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;えんめつ&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;re_restr&gt;湮滅&lt;/re_restr&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-12-17 08:55:29" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>mk</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -26,0 +27 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;vi;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -34,0 +36 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;vi;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-12-18 20:29:48" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-12-04 02:34:43" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>All of my kokugos have 湮滅 as いんめつ.
Only shinsen has an entry for えんめつ[湮滅], and it says "「いんめつ」のあやまり。" 

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 隠滅　　 │ 93,356 │ 96.1% │
│ 堙滅　　 │    102 │  0.1% │ - rK (kokugos)
│ 湮滅　　 │  3,272 │  3.4% │
│ いんめつ │    412 │  0.4% │
│ えんめつ │      0 │  0.0% │ - ik
╰─ーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -10 +10 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;堙滅&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;湮滅&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -13 +13,2 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;湮滅&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;堙滅&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;rK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -22,0 +24 @@
+&lt;re_inf&gt;&amp;ik;&lt;/re_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-12-04 04:01:43" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>