annihilate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/ (UK)

Definition of annihilate

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
    “An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.”
    “But eagerness in this case, as in most others, annihilated its own delight; down came the tottering height, while the disappointed builder found relief for his sorrow in anger—sorrow's best remedy after all.”
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verb

  1. To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
    “An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.”
    “But eagerness in this case, as in most others, annihilated its own delight; down came the tottering height, while the disappointed builder found relief for his sorrow in anger—sorrow's best remedy after all.”
  2. (particle)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).
  3. (archaic)To treat as worthless, to vilify.
    “of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.”
  4. (transitive)To render null and void; to abrogate.
  5. To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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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