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Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-nahy-uh-leyt
Phonetic Transcription : əˈnaɪ əˌleɪt

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Définition of annihilate

Origin :
  • 1520s, from an obsolete adjective meaning "reduced to nothing" (late 14c.), originally the past participle of a verb, anihil, from Old French annichiler (14c.), from Late Latin annihilare "to reduce to nothing," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + nihil "nothing" (see nil). Related: Annihilated; annihilating.
  • verb destroy completely
Example sentences :
  • Our presence bestows not being on it: our absence does not annihilate it.
  • Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
  • She can create and annihilate, and dispose at pleasure her woods, her rocks, and her rivers.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • At such times, Mr. Quinn felt as if he could annihilate an Englishman.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • He tried to close his senses, to subdue and annihilate them.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • Nothing is more difficult than to expose or annihilate a falsehood.
  • Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
  • Their object is to annihilate civilisation by exterminating the civilised.
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers
  • Or they may have supposed Falk had come in only to annihilate me completely.
  • Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad
  • As your captain says, he could annihilate the lot of them before they crushed in the front door.
  • Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
  • The army he had hoped to annihilate was on its steady and orderly march for Richmond.
  • Extract from : « Four Years in Rebel Capitals » by T. C. DeLeon
  • Philip will annihilate the reformers there, or they will shake off the yoke of Spain.
  • Extract from : « Saint Bartholomew's Eve » by G. A. Henty

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