annihilate
IPA: ʌnˈaɪʌɫeɪt
verb
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
- (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
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Examples of "annihilate" in Sentences
- The fight was totally annihilated.
- The civilianswere soon annihilated.
- The people annihilated the citizens.
- The royalists then proceed to annihilate the gauchos.
- This effort to annihilate the importance of the decision is vain.
- By the end of the battle, the Japanese regiment was virtually annihilated.
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