annihilate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin annihilō (“‘I reduce to nothing’”) < ad (“‘to’”) + nihil (“‘nothing’”).
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to annihilate (third-person singular simple present annihilates, present participle annihilating, simple past and past participle annihilated)
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- The Protestants of the North fear they will be annihilated by the Catholics should Britain withdraw from Ulster.
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- destroy
- eradicate
- extinguish
- See also Wikisaurus:destroy
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[edit] Translations
to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
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[edit] External links
- annihilate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- annihilate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
