About The Word Annihilate
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Annihilate
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What's The Definition Of Annihilate?
[v] kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Annihilate: carry off | decimate | eliminate | eradicate | extinguish | wipe out Related Terms | Find terms related to Annihilate: abate | abolish | abrogate | abscind | amputate | annul | ban | bar | bereave of life | blot out | bob | bring to naught | cancel | carry away | carry off | chloroform | clip | crop | cull | cut | cut away | cut down | cut off | cut out | decimate | demolish | deprive of life | deracinate | destroy | dispatch | dispose of | do away with | do for | do to death | dock | efface | eliminate | end | enucleate | eradicate | erase | except | excise | exclude | execute | expunge | exterminate | extinguish | extirpate | finish | finish off | immolate | invalidate | isolate | kill | knock off | launch into eternity | liquidate | lop | lynch | make away with | martyr | martyrize | massacre | murder | mutilate | negate | negative | nip | nullify | obliterate | pare | peel | pick out | poison | prune | purge | put away | put down | put to death | put to sleep | quash | quell | quench | raze | remove | remove from life | repeal | revoke | root out | root up | rout | ruin | rule out | sacrifice | set apart | set aside | shave | shear | slay | squash | stamp out | starve | strike off | strip | strip off | suppress | sweep away | take life | take off | take out | truncate | unbuild | undo | uproot | vitiate | void | wipe out | wrack | wreck See Also | kill Annihilate In Webster's Dictionary \An*ni"hi*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Annihilated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Annihilating}.] [L. annihilare; ad +
nihilum, nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread,
nothing at all. Cf. {File}, a row.]
1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the
existence of; to cause to cease to be.
It impossible for any body to be utterly
annihilated. --Bacon.
2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of,
so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to
annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. ``To
annihilate the army.'' --Macaulay.
3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a
thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc.,
of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
\An*ni"hi*late\ (an*n[imac]"h[i^]*l[asl]t), a. Annihilated. [Archaic] --Swift. |
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