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
- Fifty years later, another man set out to "annihilate" a race of people.
- What irony given that Secretary Clinton wanted to "annihilate" them all for Israel.
- Hear God speak and may his word annihilate every thought to the contrary: "The Lord thy
- Williams points out that we could easily "annihilate" Iran or Syria with nuclear weapons launched from submarines.
- I remember a “leader” many years ago wanted to annihilate from the world the feeble minded and the infirm along with the other undesirables.
- But putting an object beyond rightful use when humans have the capacity to use it would "annihilate" the object in a practical respect, treat it as nothing.
- The word annihilate seems to me to hold a destructive sense to it too so I was beginning to think that Cory had given me a word that I didn't like very much.
- My contention is that groups strive to win absolute power for their constituents, and seek to "annihilate" the opposition, where annihilation means either assimilation or death.
- In his Townhall column yesterday, Thomas Sowell takes that a step further and, in the context of Israel's bombing of Lebanon, identifies the real problem as being that we don't "annihilate" our enemies -- using that word twice within two paragraphs:
- He is not only continuing an unjust war by leaving 80,000 troops andscores ofpermanent bases in Iraq, and all over the region, including nuclear carrier-led task forces with enough firepower to "annihilate" any country in the region, but Obama is enlisting many progressive sections of society to support and be complicit in waging a spreading war for U.S. hegemony and imperialist expansion known as the “war on terror.”
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