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annihilate
[ uh-nahy-uh-leyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly:
The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- to destroy the collective existence or main body of; wipe out:
to annihilate an army.
Synonyms: , ,
- to annul; make void:
to annihilate a law.
- to cancel the effect of; nullify.
- to defeat completely; vanquish:
Our basketball team annihilated the visiting team.
annihilate
/ əˈnaɪələbəl; əˈnaɪəˌleɪt /
verb
- tr to destroy completely; extinguish
- informal.tr to defeat totally, as in debate or argument
- intr physics to undergo annihilation
Derived Forms
- annihilable, adjective
- ˈԾپ, adjective
- ˈԾˌٴǰ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ·Ծ···پ [uh, -, nahy, -, uh, -ley-tiv, ‑, uh, -l, uh, ‑], ·Ծ···ٴ· [uh, -, nahy, -, uh, -l, uh, -tawr-ee, ‑-tohr-ee], adjective
- ܲa·Ծh·e adjective
- ܲa·Ծh·t adjective
- ܲa·Ծh··ٴr adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of annihilate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of annihilate1
Example Sentences
But Ginsberg cautioned that dehumanization “didn't propose a compassion or tenderness or mutual involvement or Buddha nature as an alternative. It proposed a complete annihilating void and nothingness.”
The horrendous Pacific Palisades fire annihilated huge swaths of the surrounding community and burned some of the Getty Villa’s grounds.
Vought was the main author of the Project 2025 plot to annihilate the federal government and turn the country into a Christian Nationalist paradise.
The tendency to objectify women may in some cases also develop into a desire to annihilate the whole question of female desire, let alone agency.
On Friday, Caroline's brother David highlighted – as he has done before – that the trial had not just been about Gisèle but about their whole "annihilated family".
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