Annihilate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To destroy completely: The naval force was annihilated during the attack.
  • v. To reduce to nonexistence.
  • v. To defeat decisively; vanquish.
  • v. To nullify or render void; abolish.
  • verb-intransitive. Physics To participate in annihilation, as an electron and a positron do.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
  • v. To treat as worthless, to vilify.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
  • v. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists.
  • v. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of.
  • adj. Annihilated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To reduce to nothing; deprive of existence; cause to cease to be.
  • To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists: as, to annihilate a forest by cutting and carrying away the trees; to annihilate an army; to annihilate a house by demolishing the structure; also, to destroy or eradicate, as a property or an attribute of a thing.
  • Annihilated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. kill in large numbers
  • Antonym
    create    preserver   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    kill   
    Cross Reference
    extirpate   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    annihilated    abolish    destroy    obliterate    dissolve    nullify    efface    uncreate    blot    unmake