English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Latin annihilō ( “ I reduce to nothing ” ) , from ad ( “ to ” ) + nihil ( “ nothing ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Verb
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To reduce to nothing , to destroy , to eradicate .
An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
( particle physics ) To react with antimatter , producing gamma radiation .
( archaic ) To treat as worthless, to vilify .
( transitive ) To render null and void ; to abrogate .
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
Arabic: أَفْنَى ( ʔafnā )
Bulgarian: унищожавам (bg) ( uništožavam ) , изтребвам (bg) ( iztrebvam )
Catalan: anihilar (ca) , aniquilar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殲滅 / 歼灭 (zh) ( jiānmiè ) , 歼灭 (zh) ( jiānmiè ) , 毁灭 (zh) ( huǐmiè )
Czech: vyhladit
Danish: annihilere , tilintetgøre (da)
Dutch: vernietigen (nl)
Esperanto: neniigi
Finnish: hävittää (fi)
French: annihiler (fr) , anéantir (fr)
German: vernichten (de)
Greek: εκμηδενίζω (el) ( ekmidenízo )
Hungarian: megsemmisít (hu)
Icelandic: tortíma (is)
Ido: nihiligar (io)
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Italian: annichilire (it) , annientare (it)
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Japanese: 撲滅する (ja) ( bokumetsu suru ) , 殲滅する (ja) ( semmetsu suru ) , 根絶する (ja) ( konzetsu suru ) , 根刮ぎにする (ja) ( nekosogi ni suru ) , 絶滅させる (ja) ( zetsumetsu saseru )
Kurdish:
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Latin: annihilō (la)
Maori: urupatu , whakamōtī
Norwegian: tilintetgjøre (no)
Old English: adilgian
Persian: نابود کردن ( nâbud kardan ) , از بین بردن ( az beyn bordan )
Polish: unicestwiać (pl) impf , unicestwić (pl) pf
Portuguese: aniquilar (pt)
Romanian: anihila (ro)
Russian: уничтожа́ть (ru) impf ( uničtožátʹ ) , уничто́жить (ru) pf ( uničtóžitʹ ) , истребля́ть (ru) impf ( istrebljátʹ ) , истреби́ть (ru) pf ( istrebítʹ )
Spanish: aniquilar (es) , anihilar (es) ( rare )
Swedish: tillintetgöra (sv) , förinta (sv) , förgöra (sv)
Thai: กวาดล้าง (th) ( gwàat-láang ) , ทำลาย (th) ( tam-laai )
Ukrainian: зни́щувати impf ( znýščuvaty ) , зни́щити pf ( znýščyty )
Further reading
“annihilate ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
“annihilate ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC .
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage ) annihilāte
second-person plural present active imperative of annihilō