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Borrowed fromLatinannihilātus,perfectpassiveparticiple ofannihilō(to reduce to nothing) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), fromad(to) +nihil(nothing) +(verb-forming suffix).

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annihilate (third-person singular simple presentannihilates,present participleannihilating,simple past and past participleannihilated)

  1. To reduce tonothing, todestroy, toeradicate.
    An atom bomb canannihilate a whole city.
    • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, inFrancesca Carrara. [], volume II, London:Richard Bentley, [], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page237:
      But eagerness in this case, as in most others,annihilated its own delight; down came the tottering height, while the disappointed builder found relief for his sorrow in anger—sorrow's best remedy after all.
  2. (particle physics) To react withantimatter, producinggamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especiallycomposite particles such asprotons) lighter particles (such aspions,muons, andneutrinos).
  3. (archaic) To treat as worthless, tovilify.
  4. (transitive) To rendernull and void; toabrogate.

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to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
to react with antimatter

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Latin

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annihilāte

  1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofannihilō
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