Annihilated
[ə'naiəleitid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Annihilate
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Examples
- 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.
- A decent elderly woman opened the gate to me, and at once annihilated all the hopes I had built on securing the assistance of Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Upon the removal of the ideas of these sensible qualities, they are utterly annihilated to the thought or imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What is to be absolutely annihilated is not alone prostitution, not alone all the methods of expression which lust seeks out, but lust itself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They looked like very young kids, but they annihilated distance like an express train. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She was like the stiff-necked unbelievers of Scripture, who must be annihilated to be convinced. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You shall not be annihilated, George! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She would have liked them all annihilated, cleared away, so that the world was left clear for her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am thinking of the sort of figure I cut the first time I saw you, when you annihilated my poor sketch with your criticism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It has already annihilated all the tribes who formerly inhabited the seacoast. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Annihilated in a moment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The elephant has annihilated several dogs lately that pressed his companion too closely. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Whether shall the red or the blue be annihilated? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Once men have tasted inventions like the trust they have learned something which cannot be annihilated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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