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annihilate verb. . E16.
[formed as ANNIHILATE adjective: see -ATE3.]
verb trans. Make null and void, cancel, abrogate (laws, treaties, rights, etc.). arch. E16.
W. Fulke To adnihilate the sacraments ministred by heretikes.
verb trans. Treat as non-existent, set at naught. arch. M16.
Smollett To usurp your name, and annihilate your exploits.
verb trans. Destroy largely or completely; blot out of existence. M16.
Defoe God can no more be the author of evil, than he can annihilate himself, and cease to be. T. Pennant The vestiges of the Roman camp..are almost annihilated. Wellington That event has totally annihilated all order and discipline. M. Born The human race has today the means for annihilating itself.
verb trans. fig. Reduce to insignificance or powerlessness; silence or humiliate completely. M17.
Byron Thou who with thy frown Annihilated senates. J. B. Priestley All the years between Peter De Wint and myself were annihilated in a flash; he pointed and I saw, he spoke and I heard.
verb trans. (usu. in pass.) & intrans. Physics. Convert or be converted into electromagnetic radiation; subject to or undergo annihilation. M20.
S. Weinberg Nuclear reactions, in which a fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated.
annihil verb trans. [Old & mod. French] = ANNIHILATE verb 1, 3 L15-L17.
annihilable adjective L17.
annihilative adjective (rare) such as to annihilate, crushing E19.
annihilator noun L17.