To wipe out an entire family; to exterminate a whole household or lineage; to annihilate a family completely.
在过去的某些动荡时期，因为土地纠纷，常有家族之间发生冲突，甚至导致灭门绝户的悲剧。
In some turbulent periods of the past, conflicts often arose between clans over land disputes, sometimes leading to the tragedy of an entire family being wiped out.
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