to annihilate
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7.5
- verb
- /əˈnaɪəˌleɪt/
- NSFW
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- The invading army vowed to annihilate the opposing forces, leaving no survivors.
- completely annihilated
- annihilate objects
- annihilate each other
No, but it must at the very least annihilate the shared eigenfunction.
- No, but it must at the very least annihilate the shared eigenfunction.
- There's a lot of nations and empires that when they conquer, they annihilate versus integrate.
- Not, not just to kill us, not to persecute us, not to enslave us, to annihilate us.
- They're going to annihilate into two photons, each of a very specific energy.
- So right now we're going to throw this little bait and watch him just absolutely annihilate it and destroy it.
- Each side thinks that the other side is trying to annihilate it, and both are right and both are right.
- And then this other guy, Craig Jones, who was like their BJJ wizard trainer, just annihilated me.
- The vacuum is not dormant according to quantum mechanics that are all the time particles created and annihilated and all kinds of things happening.
- Another is that the company is eternal and will endure until the very end of time, when the last God shall annihilate the earth.
- So when I see countries trying to annihilate Israel for no good reason, I'm like, do you know who you're messing with?
Examples
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Ninety percent of the people were annihilated by war, murder, and disease.
Fiction book (1992) -
Xerxes ordered the Persian fleet to sea that night so they would be in position to annihilate the Greeks as they tried to escape at dawn.
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Any decent lawyer will annihilate him on the stand.
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"But to have held out for hundreds of years and then successfully annihilate them?"
Fiction book (1998) -
What do we we welcome stiff competition when it comes to nuclear weapons that could annihilate millions of Americans.
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Get out there and annihilate those stinkweeds!
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In three more hours, we would have met and annihilated his last operational division.
Fiction book (1999) -
They sent every single air platform that we had available, and he annihilated anything that was moving within that area.
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Besieged and facing the German ultimatum to surrender or be annihilated, Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe replied, "Nuts."
Fiction book (1990) -
A sudden volcanic eruption can annihilate entire towns in a matter of minutes.
Synonyms
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2.8
Stop something from working or continuing
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3.4
Remove or kill something completely so it is gone
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4.9
To destroy something greatly or make people feel deeply shocked and sad
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4.2
Destroy something so nothing is left
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6.6
Remove something harmful completely, for example a disease or pest
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7.5
To destroy something completely so nothing remains
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6.9
To destroy something completely, often on purpose
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7.5
To destroy a large part of a group or population
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4.8
Destroy almost all members of a group, like a type of animal or product
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7.7
To destroy something completely as if by a powerful weapon
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7.4
To destroy something completely, often using a nuclear bomb
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7.6
To destroy something completely so nothing is left
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7.7
Kill an entire group of people or animals so none are left
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7.7
Put an end to something or to someone's life
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9.3
To kill someone who is a threat
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8.2
To kill many people or animals
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3.9
To destroy or carry something away completely, for example by water
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9.2
To destroy a place with very powerful weapons like bombs
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9.9
To destroy something completely, including its root
Antonyms
How Destructive
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- NSFW
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4.9
∞
1.0
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1.4
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1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word annihilate comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and nihil 'nothing', so it originally meant 'to make into nothing'. That's why to annihilate something is to destroy it completely.