Annihilate
[ə'naɪɪleɪt] or [ə'naɪəlet]
Definition
(v. t.) To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(a.) Annihilated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Destroy, extinguish, quench, kill, exterminate, raze, blast, ruin, nullify, annul, put an end to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Abolish, destroy, bring_to_nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify, exterminate,end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface
ANT:Keep, conserve, preserve, foster, tend, protest, cherish, develope,stabilitate, augment, cultivate, perpetuate
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Definition
v.t. to reduce to nothing: to put out of existence: to render null and void to abrogate.—ns. Annihilā′tion state of being reduced to nothing: act of destroying: (theol.) the destruction of soul as well as body; Annihilā′tionism the belief that the soul dies with the body.—adj. Annihilā′tive.—n. Annihilā′tor one who annihilates.
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Examples
- Annihilate that doubt. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It has reappeared to annihilate me, all through my life, in connexion with all kinds of subjects. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For it is this that the Commission proposes to repress, and ultimately to annihilate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Archer crumpled up the yellow sheet as if the gesture could annihilate the news it contained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They endeavoured, therefore, to annihilate his trade altogether. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He had troops enough even to annihilate him in the open field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were going to annihilate us by force of numbers--that was quite evidently their plan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But you shan't be annihilated, George. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It stunned her and annihilated her, but she could not escape it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Had it contained confirmation, she must have been annihilated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The imagination tells us, that our resembling perceptions have a continued and uninterrupted existence, and are not annihilated by their absence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Here then may arise two questions; First, How we can satisfy ourselves in supposing a perception to be absent from the mind without being annihilated. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Poland was ravaged, and a mixed army of Poles and Germans was annihilated at the battle of Liegnitz in Lower Silesia in 1241. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nor is there any need of insisting again that the ultimate ideal of annihilating prostitution has nothing to expect from the concrete proposals that were made. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All was serene, burning, annihilating. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This seemed like annihilating space. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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