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Word: Annihilate
Speech Type: Verb
late Middle English (originally as an adjective meaning ‘destroyed, annulled’): from late Latin annihilatus ‘reduced to nothing’, from the verb annihilare, from ad- ‘to’ + nihil ‘nothing’. The sense ‘destroy utterly’ dates from the mid 16th century
əˈnʌɪəleɪt
destroy utterly; obliterate
Short Definition:destroy utterly
Examples:- a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all
- a crusade to annihilate evil
convert (a subatomic particle) into radiant energy
Short Definition:convert subatomic particle into radiant energy
Examples:- a fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated
- mesons are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other
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