Annihilation
[ənaɪɪ'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [ə,naɪə'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) destruction by annihilating something.
(noun.) total destruction; 'bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
(n.) The state of being annihilated.
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Examples
- Blank annihilation! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So when their report puts at its head that absolute annihilation of prostitution is the ultimate ideal, we may well translate it into the real intent of the Commission. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- After all, it is death and then—annihilation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It looked to me that, if Price would remain in Iuka until we could get there, his annihilation was inevitable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Creation, annihilation, motion, reason, volition; all these may arise from one another, or from any other object we can imagine. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A blue and a red point may surely lie contiguous without any penetration or annihilation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- When I see how helpless you are, D'Arnot, I often wonder how the human race has escaped annihilation all these ages which you tell me about. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Nothing but what I do—a tomb—annihilation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Invention after invention has followed in such rapid succession, even to the last years of the Nineteenth Century, until war now assumes the conditions of suicide and annihilation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We may make almost the same answer to the second objection, derived from the conjunction of the ideas of rest and annihilation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But at the head of the report in black-faced type we read: Constant and persistent repression of prostitution the immediate method; absolute annihilation the ultimate ideal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Vilma