annihilate.
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
Meaning & usage
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
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).
To treat as worthless, to vilify.
To render null and void; to abrogate.
To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin annihilātus, perfect passive participle of annihilō (“to reduce to nothing”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also an-.
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