annihilate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /əˈnaɪə.leɪt/
annihilate (annihilates, present participle annihilating; past and past participle annihilated)
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
- (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- (to reduce to nothing) benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
- French: annihiler, anéantir
- German: vernichten
- Italian: annichilire, annientare
- Portuguese: aniquilar
- Russian: уничтожа́ть
- Spanish: aniquilar, anihilar (rare)
- Portuguese: aniquilar
- Russian: аннигилировать
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