annihilated


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an·ni·hi·late

 (ə-nī′ə-lāt′)
v.an·ni·hi·lat·ed,an·ni·hi·lat·ing,an·ni·hi·lates
v.tr.
1.
a. To destroy completely:The naval force was annihilated during the attack.
b. To reduce to nonexistence:"He had not just to hide his hunger; so as not to go mad he had to annihilate it"(Philip Roth).
c. To defeat decisively:annihilated the league champions in the playoffs.
2.Physics To convert (a subatomic particle) to energy or high-energy particles by annihilation.
v.intr.
1. To be completely destructive.
2.Physics To participate in annihilation. Used of particles and antiparticles.

[Late Latinannihilāre, annihilāt- : Latinad-,ad- + Latinnihil,nothing; seene inIndo-European roots.]

an·ni′hi·la·bil′i·ty(-lə-bĭl′ĭ-tē) n.
an·ni′hi·la·ble(-lə-bəl) adj.
an·ni′hi·la′tor n.
Synonyms: annihilate, exterminate, extinguish, obliterate
These verbs mean to destroy completely.Annihilate often implies that the destruction is so severe that nothing is left or salvagable:The cannon blasts annihilated the enemy's fortifications.
Exterminate emphasizes the elimination of that which is considered undesirable, especially by killing:"The land had been rendered treeless, as though a tree were a parasite that needed to be exterminated, its stump uprooted and purged" (Madhusree Mukerjee).
Extinguish is to put an end to something or to make something extinct:The teacher's criticism of my essay extinguished my enthusiasm for the project.
Toobliterate is to leave no trace of that which is destroyed:The virus obliterates all data on the hard drive of any computer it infects.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.annihilated - destroyed completelyannihilated - destroyed completely      
destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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If the perceptible isannihilated, perception also will cease to exist; but the annihilation of perception does not cancel the existence of the perceptible.
For if the animal isannihilated, it follows that perception also isannihilated, but perceptibles such as body, heat, sweetness, bitterness, and so on, will remain.
"I am thinking of the sort of figure I cut the first time I saw you, when youannihilated my poor sketch with your criticism."
"According to that, if my senses areannihilated, if my body is dead, I can have no existence of any sort?" he queried.
When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks, jaws, ribs, and vertebrae, all characterized by partial resemblances to the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on the other hand similar affinities to theannihilated antichronical Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun; for time began with man.
A whole army of Polygons, who turned out to fight as private soldiers, was utterlyannihilated by a superior force of Isosceles Triangles -- the Squares and Pentagons meanwhile remaining neutral.
Twenty-eight hundred of them had beenannihilated in a tremendous series of dynamite explosions in Oregon, and in a similar manner, a number of train loads, at different times and places, had been destroyed.
The entire six thousand wereannihilated. Common shell and shrapnel were thrown in upon them from a distance, and, when, in their desperation, they charged the encircling lines, they were mowed down by the machine-guns.
You gasp, you splutter, you are blinded and deafened, you are submerged, obliterated, dissolved,annihilated, streaming all over as if your limbs, too, had turned to water.
The elephant hasannihilated several dogs lately that pressed his companion too closely.
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They even described the car as being "annihilated".

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