Definition of annihilate in English:

annihilate

verbəˈnʌɪɪleɪtəˈnaɪəˌleɪt

[with object]

1Destroy utterly; obliterate.
毁灭；摧毁
a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all
一枚简单的这类炸弹就能将他们全部毁灭。
a crusade to annihilate evil
消灭邪恶的运动。
Example sentencesExamples
- As myriad examples show, annihilating a people also requires destroying - or allowing to be destroyed - the symbols of that people's history, community, and identity.
- All that person wanted to do was destroy, to annihilate everything around her.
- Thus Pluto has come to signify enormous power that can release untold energy, destroy, or annihilate.
- The anti-Japanese organizations have been dissolved, and all other civil and Internet anti-Japanese movements are being destroyed and annihilated.
- Once I got to the top, the master would take over and my enemy would be utterly annihilated.
- A three-month bombing campaign nearly annihilated the city, destroying its people and its wealth.
- He had come to alleviate their distress, to annihilate evil, to restore peace and justice; but I wondered if even he could ameliorate the morbid state of the planet in just eleven days.
- Dairying in the west will be virtually annihilated if the government adopts the recommendations of a strategic development plan which they have commissioned on the future of the industry in Ireland, a farm group has warned.
- Those who set themselves up to be nature's masters and possessors, and forget that they themselves are merely part of nature, destroy nature and, in the end, annihilate themselves.
- He writes, ‘These men are nothing buy warlords who are annihilating their own countrymen in return for a position in leadership and the ensuing dimes that will come as foreign aid.’
- Diclofenac residues have virtually annihilated the Oriental white-backed vulture in Pakistan.
- These therapies help to annihilate the root cause of ailments and stimulate a person's natural healing power.
- Terrorist attacks that destroy thousands of lives and forest fires, which completely annihilate an area and leave many persons homeless and displaced, aren't uncommon nowadays.
- In the air, the US has concentrated its massive firepower on the Tora Bora area, using sophisticated bunker-busting bombs to seal or destroy caves and annihilate any opposition.
- Archaeologists have found proof of the first ever use on British soil of a terrifying new weapon at the Battle of Killiecrankie, at which 2,500 Jacobites annihilated a force of 4,000 redcoats.
- Once the remaining three ships were clear of the blast area they were annihilated by the burst from the destroyer's main gun.
- Because he was a king, Conrad continued to play a role in the Second Crusade, but the imperial army was annihilated and the Germans did not contribute significantly to what followed.
- At the time the program began, there were only about 500 of the grazing animals left, because they had been virtually annihilated by hunters.
- Throughout their recollections you could hear in their voices the absolute belief that even if they were killed, even if their whole battalion was annihilated, that the Allies would still win the war.
- Any one of these could destroy a city - annihilating hundreds of thousands of people in the process.
Synonyms
destroy, wipe out, obliterate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, kill, slaughter, exterminate, eliminate, liquidate, eradicate, extinguish, finish off, erase, root out, extirpate
informal take out, rub out, snuff out, zap, waste
1. 1.1 Defeat utterly.
  彻底击溃
  the stronger force annihilated its opponent virtually without loss
  那支更强大的军队实际上丝毫未损就把对手打败了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Asus GameFace allows you to not only talk to your opponent, but see them cringe as you annihilate them.
  The consequences for the NNP were clear and simple: it had been annihilated as an electoral force in South Africa and the Western Cape, Selfe said.
  There are other styles of play, such as Team Deathmatch, where the goal is simply to annihilate the opposing forces, and Capture the Flag, but they are far less popular, and the formats aren't as suitable.
  As a young man, he made his name not in student politics but in wrestling, and now he uses words and more words to annihilate and humiliate his opponents.
  Well don't bother annihilating them at the ballot box, just ban them instead.
  With a quick smile to Ally, Trent got ready to annihilate his opponent.
  This proved the best, probably only strategy in the end, and the film is finally as much about the bravery and tenacity of one gay man in the face of annihilating social forces as anything else.
  The reigning champion didn't just beat his opponents - he annihilated them.
  Then, in 1986, the same year that Holmes was beaten by Michael Spinks, Tyson annihilated Trevor Berbick for the WBC crown.
  Winning away at Anfield, defeating Arsenal, annihilating Rangers home and away, all smack of a team capable of greatness.
  Does the host team annihilate all opponents within three days and crush them by an innings or so?
  With spirits high despite the previous day's loss, Air Force showed determination and pulled together as they annihilated Navy in a strong win.
  Talk about wanting to annihilate opponents never wins friends and making insulting gestures at beaten teams will soon remove any lingering goodwill that the team enjoy.
  Murikans get testy when we don't annihilate our opponents.
  In the end, they have all fallen in front of Jones - Montell Griffin beat him once via disqualification but was annihilated in their second meeting.
  They annihilated Caragh in the semi final on Saturday before beating the hosts by 2-12 to 3-5 in Sunday's final.
  The liberal and conservative parties stopped fighting in 1958 and agreed to share power while joining forces to annihilate all opposition to their two-party system.
  Yet on July 23, Samak annihilated his opponents to win the Bangkok governorship with a record-breaking one million votes, almost twice the total of the other 22 candidates combined.
  The Clan kicked off their last season in the NAIA with a bang, annihilating the Puget Sound Loggers 39-0 at Swanguard Stadium Saturday, Sept.8.
  We annihilated our opponents, and nobody could argue about it.
  Synonyms
  trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, bring someone to their knees
2Physics
Convert (a subatomic particle) into radiant energy.
〔物理〕使（亚原子粒子）湮没，湮灭
a fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated
mesons are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other
Example sentencesExamples
- They annihilate each other completely and the resultant energy is high end gamma ray radiation.
- At this stage of the Big Bang, the tiny expanding Universe is filled with radiation creating pairs of particles and antiparticles, and pairs of particles and antiparticles annihilating back into radiation.
- When a particle or atom of antimatter comes into contact with a particle or atom of normal matter, both are annihilated and energy is released.
- A single quark will be surrounded by a sea of continuously appearing and annihilating virtual pairs of quarks and antiquarks, and virtual pairs of gluons and antigluons.
- The problem with research in the field of anti-matter is that when the anti-matter elements touch matter elements they annihilate each other.
- Whenever a particle meets its antiparticle counterpart, the two annihilate each other.
- The positronium in this proposed rocket would be shuttled from the fuel tank to the engine core, where it annihilates, producing two gamma rays that evaporate silicon carbide from the nearby surface.
- When a particle and antiparticle are brought together they annihilate each other, converting all of their mass and energy into a burst of electromagnetic radiation, and sometimes into other particles.
- These persistent structures are reminiscent of particles being created and annihilated in a quantum field theory.
- Each small black loop represents a photon creating an electron and a positron, which then annihilate one another and produce a photon, in what is called a virtual process.
- I'm not sure if the anti-matter and matter particles annihilating each other produces some kind of energy.
- As you watch, you'll see some of the matter-antimatter pairs of electrons collide, annihilating each other and creating gamma-ray photons once again.
- An important proof of the QCD theory is provided by the collisions between electrons and their antiparticles, positrons, with very high kinetic energy, when they annihilate each other.
- One of the unique properties of positrons is that as soon as they make contact with electrons they annihilate to produce gamma rays.
- Most people have heard that anti-matter annihilates with matter and gives rise to energy.
- When a positron encounters an electron, the two annihilate each other and are converted to two gamma rays, which can easily be detected and localized in the brain.
- The prefix anti is appropriate because an electron and a positron can annihilate each other, disappearing in a burst of energy.
- Antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact, so keeping antimatter around requires portable matterless containers, such as magnetic fields shaped into magnetic bottles.
- A photon can temporarily become an electron and positron which quickly annihilate one another to reform the original photon.
- And so a billion particles of antimatter and a billion of matter annihilated each other and turned back into heat and one little teeny bit of matter was left over - and that's us.

Derivatives

annihilator

nounəˈnʌɪəleɪtəəˈnaɪəˌleɪdər

By expanding as Lord Siva, the Lord becomes the annihilator of the universe when needed.
Example sentencesExamples
- War is… a destroyer and annihilator, in short, as an evil that strikes all, victor as well as vanquished.
- The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons.
- The most infamous family annihilator from early U.S. history is James Purrinton (sometimes Purrington), who slaughtered his wife and children in 1806.

Origin

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.

Hidden in the middle of annihilate is the Latin word nihil, meaning ‘nothing’, which is at the heart of the English word's meaning. Deriving in the 14th century from the Latin annihilatus ‘reduced to nothing’, it was first used as an adjective with the meaning ‘destroyed or annulled’. Nihil is also the source of nil (mid 16th century).

Rhymes

violate

Definition of annihilate in US English:

annihilate

verbəˈnīəˌlātəˈnaɪəˌleɪt

[with object]

1Destroy utterly; obliterate.
毁灭；摧毁
a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all
一枚简单的这类炸弹就能将他们全部毁灭。
a crusade to annihilate evil
消灭邪恶的运动。
Example sentencesExamples
- Dairying in the west will be virtually annihilated if the government adopts the recommendations of a strategic development plan which they have commissioned on the future of the industry in Ireland, a farm group has warned.
- Once the remaining three ships were clear of the blast area they were annihilated by the burst from the destroyer's main gun.
- Throughout their recollections you could hear in their voices the absolute belief that even if they were killed, even if their whole battalion was annihilated, that the Allies would still win the war.
- Thus Pluto has come to signify enormous power that can release untold energy, destroy, or annihilate.
- At the time the program began, there were only about 500 of the grazing animals left, because they had been virtually annihilated by hunters.
- Diclofenac residues have virtually annihilated the Oriental white-backed vulture in Pakistan.
- As myriad examples show, annihilating a people also requires destroying - or allowing to be destroyed - the symbols of that people's history, community, and identity.
- He writes, ‘These men are nothing buy warlords who are annihilating their own countrymen in return for a position in leadership and the ensuing dimes that will come as foreign aid.’
- These therapies help to annihilate the root cause of ailments and stimulate a person's natural healing power.
- The anti-Japanese organizations have been dissolved, and all other civil and Internet anti-Japanese movements are being destroyed and annihilated.
- Once I got to the top, the master would take over and my enemy would be utterly annihilated.
- He had come to alleviate their distress, to annihilate evil, to restore peace and justice; but I wondered if even he could ameliorate the morbid state of the planet in just eleven days.
- Archaeologists have found proof of the first ever use on British soil of a terrifying new weapon at the Battle of Killiecrankie, at which 2,500 Jacobites annihilated a force of 4,000 redcoats.
- Those who set themselves up to be nature's masters and possessors, and forget that they themselves are merely part of nature, destroy nature and, in the end, annihilate themselves.
- Any one of these could destroy a city - annihilating hundreds of thousands of people in the process.
- All that person wanted to do was destroy, to annihilate everything around her.
- Because he was a king, Conrad continued to play a role in the Second Crusade, but the imperial army was annihilated and the Germans did not contribute significantly to what followed.
- A three-month bombing campaign nearly annihilated the city, destroying its people and its wealth.
- In the air, the US has concentrated its massive firepower on the Tora Bora area, using sophisticated bunker-busting bombs to seal or destroy caves and annihilate any opposition.
- Terrorist attacks that destroy thousands of lives and forest fires, which completely annihilate an area and leave many persons homeless and displaced, aren't uncommon nowadays.
Synonyms
destroy, wipe out, obliterate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, kill, slaughter, exterminate, eliminate, liquidate, eradicate, extinguish, finish off, erase, root out, extirpate
1. 1.1 Defeat utterly.
  彻底击溃
  the stronger force annihilated its opponent virtually without loss
  那支更强大的军队实际上丝毫未损就把对手打败了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The liberal and conservative parties stopped fighting in 1958 and agreed to share power while joining forces to annihilate all opposition to their two-party system.
  Winning away at Anfield, defeating Arsenal, annihilating Rangers home and away, all smack of a team capable of greatness.
  The consequences for the NNP were clear and simple: it had been annihilated as an electoral force in South Africa and the Western Cape, Selfe said.
  There are other styles of play, such as Team Deathmatch, where the goal is simply to annihilate the opposing forces, and Capture the Flag, but they are far less popular, and the formats aren't as suitable.
  This proved the best, probably only strategy in the end, and the film is finally as much about the bravery and tenacity of one gay man in the face of annihilating social forces as anything else.
  Asus GameFace allows you to not only talk to your opponent, but see them cringe as you annihilate them.
  Murikans get testy when we don't annihilate our opponents.
  The Clan kicked off their last season in the NAIA with a bang, annihilating the Puget Sound Loggers 39-0 at Swanguard Stadium Saturday, Sept.8.
  Then, in 1986, the same year that Holmes was beaten by Michael Spinks, Tyson annihilated Trevor Berbick for the WBC crown.
  Does the host team annihilate all opponents within three days and crush them by an innings or so?
  In the end, they have all fallen in front of Jones - Montell Griffin beat him once via disqualification but was annihilated in their second meeting.
  They annihilated Caragh in the semi final on Saturday before beating the hosts by 2-12 to 3-5 in Sunday's final.
  As a young man, he made his name not in student politics but in wrestling, and now he uses words and more words to annihilate and humiliate his opponents.
  With a quick smile to Ally, Trent got ready to annihilate his opponent.
  Yet on July 23, Samak annihilated his opponents to win the Bangkok governorship with a record-breaking one million votes, almost twice the total of the other 22 candidates combined.
  With spirits high despite the previous day's loss, Air Force showed determination and pulled together as they annihilated Navy in a strong win.
  The reigning champion didn't just beat his opponents - he annihilated them.
  Talk about wanting to annihilate opponents never wins friends and making insulting gestures at beaten teams will soon remove any lingering goodwill that the team enjoy.
  We annihilated our opponents, and nobody could argue about it.
  Well don't bother annihilating them at the ballot box, just ban them instead.
  Synonyms
  trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, bring someone to their knees
2. 1.2Physics Convert (a subatomic particle) into radiant energy.
  〔物理〕使（亚原子粒子）湮没，湮灭
  Example sentencesExamples
  When a particle and antiparticle are brought together they annihilate each other, converting all of their mass and energy into a burst of electromagnetic radiation, and sometimes into other particles.
  When a particle or atom of antimatter comes into contact with a particle or atom of normal matter, both are annihilated and energy is released.
  At this stage of the Big Bang, the tiny expanding Universe is filled with radiation creating pairs of particles and antiparticles, and pairs of particles and antiparticles annihilating back into radiation.
  The problem with research in the field of anti-matter is that when the anti-matter elements touch matter elements they annihilate each other.
  A single quark will be surrounded by a sea of continuously appearing and annihilating virtual pairs of quarks and antiquarks, and virtual pairs of gluons and antigluons.
  The positronium in this proposed rocket would be shuttled from the fuel tank to the engine core, where it annihilates, producing two gamma rays that evaporate silicon carbide from the nearby surface.
  They annihilate each other completely and the resultant energy is high end gamma ray radiation.
  And so a billion particles of antimatter and a billion of matter annihilated each other and turned back into heat and one little teeny bit of matter was left over - and that's us.
  An important proof of the QCD theory is provided by the collisions between electrons and their antiparticles, positrons, with very high kinetic energy, when they annihilate each other.
  Most people have heard that anti-matter annihilates with matter and gives rise to energy.
  I'm not sure if the anti-matter and matter particles annihilating each other produces some kind of energy.
  One of the unique properties of positrons is that as soon as they make contact with electrons they annihilate to produce gamma rays.
  As you watch, you'll see some of the matter-antimatter pairs of electrons collide, annihilating each other and creating gamma-ray photons once again.
  Each small black loop represents a photon creating an electron and a positron, which then annihilate one another and produce a photon, in what is called a virtual process.
  These persistent structures are reminiscent of particles being created and annihilated in a quantum field theory.
  The prefix anti is appropriate because an electron and a positron can annihilate each other, disappearing in a burst of energy.
  Antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact, so keeping antimatter around requires portable matterless containers, such as magnetic fields shaped into magnetic bottles.
  A photon can temporarily become an electron and positron which quickly annihilate one another to reform the original photon.
  When a positron encounters an electron, the two annihilate each other and are converted to two gamma rays, which can easily be detected and localized in the brain.
  Whenever a particle meets its antiparticle counterpart, the two annihilate each other.

Origin

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.

单词	annihilate
释义	Definition of annihilate in English: annihilate verbəˈnʌɪɪleɪtəˈnaɪəˌleɪt [with object] 1Destroy utterly; obliterate. 毁灭；摧毁 a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all 一枚简单的这类炸弹就能将他们全部毁灭。 a crusade to annihilate evil 消灭邪恶的运动。 Example sentencesExamples As myriad examples show, annihilating a people also requires destroying - or allowing to be destroyed - the symbols of that people's history, community, and identity. All that person wanted to do was destroy, to annihilate everything around her. Thus Pluto has come to signify enormous power that can release untold energy, destroy, or annihilate. The anti-Japanese organizations have been dissolved, and all other civil and Internet anti-Japanese movements are being destroyed and annihilated. Once I got to the top, the master would take over and my enemy would be utterly annihilated. A three-month bombing campaign nearly annihilated the city, destroying its people and its wealth. He had come to alleviate their distress, to annihilate evil, to restore peace and justice; but I wondered if even he could ameliorate the morbid state of the planet in just eleven days. Dairying in the west will be virtually annihilated if the government adopts the recommendations of a strategic development plan which they have commissioned on the future of the industry in Ireland, a farm group has warned. Those who set themselves up to be nature's masters and possessors, and forget that they themselves are merely part of nature, destroy nature and, in the end, annihilate themselves. He writes, ‘These men are nothing buy warlords who are annihilating their own countrymen in return for a position in leadership and the ensuing dimes that will come as foreign aid.’ Diclofenac residues have virtually annihilated the Oriental white-backed vulture in Pakistan. These therapies help to annihilate the root cause of ailments and stimulate a person's natural healing power. Terrorist attacks that destroy thousands of lives and forest fires, which completely annihilate an area and leave many persons homeless and displaced, aren't uncommon nowadays. In the air, the US has concentrated its massive firepower on the Tora Bora area, using sophisticated bunker-busting bombs to seal or destroy caves and annihilate any opposition. Archaeologists have found proof of the first ever use on British soil of a terrifying new weapon at the Battle of Killiecrankie, at which 2,500 Jacobites annihilated a force of 4,000 redcoats. Once the remaining three ships were clear of the blast area they were annihilated by the burst from the destroyer's main gun. Because he was a king, Conrad continued to play a role in the Second Crusade, but the imperial army was annihilated and the Germans did not contribute significantly to what followed. At the time the program began, there were only about 500 of the grazing animals left, because they had been virtually annihilated by hunters. Throughout their recollections you could hear in their voices the absolute belief that even if they were killed, even if their whole battalion was annihilated, that the Allies would still win the war. Any one of these could destroy a city - annihilating hundreds of thousands of people in the process. Synonyms destroy, wipe out, obliterate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, kill, slaughter, exterminate, eliminate, liquidate, eradicate, extinguish, finish off, erase, root out, extirpate informal take out, rub out, snuff out, zap, waste 1.1 Defeat utterly. 彻底击溃 the stronger force annihilated its opponent virtually without loss 那支更强大的军队实际上丝毫未损就把对手打败了。 Example sentencesExamples Asus GameFace allows you to not only talk to your opponent, but see them cringe as you annihilate them. The consequences for the NNP were clear and simple: it had been annihilated as an electoral force in South Africa and the Western Cape, Selfe said. There are other styles of play, such as Team Deathmatch, where the goal is simply to annihilate the opposing forces, and Capture the Flag, but they are far less popular, and the formats aren't as suitable. As a young man, he made his name not in student politics but in wrestling, and now he uses words and more words to annihilate and humiliate his opponents. Well don't bother annihilating them at the ballot box, just ban them instead. With a quick smile to Ally, Trent got ready to annihilate his opponent. This proved the best, probably only strategy in the end, and the film is finally as much about the bravery and tenacity of one gay man in the face of annihilating social forces as anything else. The reigning champion didn't just beat his opponents - he annihilated them. Then, in 1986, the same year that Holmes was beaten by Michael Spinks, Tyson annihilated Trevor Berbick for the WBC crown. Winning away at Anfield, defeating Arsenal, annihilating Rangers home and away, all smack of a team capable of greatness. Does the host team annihilate all opponents within three days and crush them by an innings or so? With spirits high despite the previous day's loss, Air Force showed determination and pulled together as they annihilated Navy in a strong win. Talk about wanting to annihilate opponents never wins friends and making insulting gestures at beaten teams will soon remove any lingering goodwill that the team enjoy. Murikans get testy when we don't annihilate our opponents. In the end, they have all fallen in front of Jones - Montell Griffin beat him once via disqualification but was annihilated in their second meeting. They annihilated Caragh in the semi final on Saturday before beating the hosts by 2-12 to 3-5 in Sunday's final. The liberal and conservative parties stopped fighting in 1958 and agreed to share power while joining forces to annihilate all opposition to their two-party system. Yet on July 23, Samak annihilated his opponents to win the Bangkok governorship with a record-breaking one million votes, almost twice the total of the other 22 candidates combined. The Clan kicked off their last season in the NAIA with a bang, annihilating the Puget Sound Loggers 39-0 at Swanguard Stadium Saturday, Sept.8. We annihilated our opponents, and nobody could argue about it. Synonyms trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, bring someone to their knees 2Physics Convert (a subatomic particle) into radiant energy. 〔物理〕使（亚原子粒子）湮没，湮灭 a fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated mesons are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other Example sentencesExamples They annihilate each other completely and the resultant energy is high end gamma ray radiation. At this stage of the Big Bang, the tiny expanding Universe is filled with radiation creating pairs of particles and antiparticles, and pairs of particles and antiparticles annihilating back into radiation. When a particle or atom of antimatter comes into contact with a particle or atom of normal matter, both are annihilated and energy is released. A single quark will be surrounded by a sea of continuously appearing and annihilating virtual pairs of quarks and antiquarks, and virtual pairs of gluons and antigluons. The problem with research in the field of anti-matter is that when the anti-matter elements touch matter elements they annihilate each other. Whenever a particle meets its antiparticle counterpart, the two annihilate each other. The positronium in this proposed rocket would be shuttled from the fuel tank to the engine core, where it annihilates, producing two gamma rays that evaporate silicon carbide from the nearby surface. When a particle and antiparticle are brought together they annihilate each other, converting all of their mass and energy into a burst of electromagnetic radiation, and sometimes into other particles. These persistent structures are reminiscent of particles being created and annihilated in a quantum field theory. Each small black loop represents a photon creating an electron and a positron, which then annihilate one another and produce a photon, in what is called a virtual process. I'm not sure if the anti-matter and matter particles annihilating each other produces some kind of energy. As you watch, you'll see some of the matter-antimatter pairs of electrons collide, annihilating each other and creating gamma-ray photons once again. An important proof of the QCD theory is provided by the collisions between electrons and their antiparticles, positrons, with very high kinetic energy, when they annihilate each other. One of the unique properties of positrons is that as soon as they make contact with electrons they annihilate to produce gamma rays. Most people have heard that anti-matter annihilates with matter and gives rise to energy. When a positron encounters an electron, the two annihilate each other and are converted to two gamma rays, which can easily be detected and localized in the brain. The prefix anti is appropriate because an electron and a positron can annihilate each other, disappearing in a burst of energy. Antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact, so keeping antimatter around requires portable matterless containers, such as magnetic fields shaped into magnetic bottles. A photon can temporarily become an electron and positron which quickly annihilate one another to reform the original photon. And so a billion particles of antimatter and a billion of matter annihilated each other and turned back into heat and one little teeny bit of matter was left over - and that's us. Derivatives annihilator nounəˈnʌɪəleɪtəəˈnaɪəˌleɪdər By expanding as Lord Siva, the Lord becomes the annihilator of the universe when needed. Example sentencesExamples War is… a destroyer and annihilator, in short, as an evil that strikes all, victor as well as vanquished. The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons. The most infamous family annihilator from early U.S. history is James Purrinton (sometimes Purrington), who slaughtered his wife and children in 1806. Origin 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. Hidden in the middle of annihilate is the Latin word nihil, meaning ‘nothing’, which is at the heart of the English word's meaning. Deriving in the 14th century from the Latin annihilatus ‘reduced to nothing’, it was first used as an adjective with the meaning ‘destroyed or annulled’. Nihil is also the source of nil (mid 16th century). Rhymes violate Definition of annihilate in US English: annihilate verbəˈnīəˌlātəˈnaɪəˌleɪt [with object] 1Destroy utterly; obliterate. 毁灭；摧毁 a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all 一枚简单的这类炸弹就能将他们全部毁灭。 a crusade to annihilate evil 消灭邪恶的运动。 Example sentencesExamples Dairying in the west will be virtually annihilated if the government adopts the recommendations of a strategic development plan which they have commissioned on the future of the industry in Ireland, a farm group has warned. Once the remaining three ships were clear of the blast area they were annihilated by the burst from the destroyer's main gun. Throughout their recollections you could hear in their voices the absolute belief that even if they were killed, even if their whole battalion was annihilated, that the Allies would still win the war. Thus Pluto has come to signify enormous power that can release untold energy, destroy, or annihilate. At the time the program began, there were only about 500 of the grazing animals left, because they had been virtually annihilated by hunters. Diclofenac residues have virtually annihilated the Oriental white-backed vulture in Pakistan. As myriad examples show, annihilating a people also requires destroying - or allowing to be destroyed - the symbols of that people's history, community, and identity. He writes, ‘These men are nothing buy warlords who are annihilating their own countrymen in return for a position in leadership and the ensuing dimes that will come as foreign aid.’ These therapies help to annihilate the root cause of ailments and stimulate a person's natural healing power. The anti-Japanese organizations have been dissolved, and all other civil and Internet anti-Japanese movements are being destroyed and annihilated. Once I got to the top, the master would take over and my enemy would be utterly annihilated. He had come to alleviate their distress, to annihilate evil, to restore peace and justice; but I wondered if even he could ameliorate the morbid state of the planet in just eleven days. Archaeologists have found proof of the first ever use on British soil of a terrifying new weapon at the Battle of Killiecrankie, at which 2,500 Jacobites annihilated a force of 4,000 redcoats. Those who set themselves up to be nature's masters and possessors, and forget that they themselves are merely part of nature, destroy nature and, in the end, annihilate themselves. Any one of these could destroy a city - annihilating hundreds of thousands of people in the process. All that person wanted to do was destroy, to annihilate everything around her. Because he was a king, Conrad continued to play a role in the Second Crusade, but the imperial army was annihilated and the Germans did not contribute significantly to what followed. A three-month bombing campaign nearly annihilated the city, destroying its people and its wealth. In the air, the US has concentrated its massive firepower on the Tora Bora area, using sophisticated bunker-busting bombs to seal or destroy caves and annihilate any opposition. Terrorist attacks that destroy thousands of lives and forest fires, which completely annihilate an area and leave many persons homeless and displaced, aren't uncommon nowadays. Synonyms destroy, wipe out, obliterate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, kill, slaughter, exterminate, eliminate, liquidate, eradicate, extinguish, finish off, erase, root out, extirpate 1.1 Defeat utterly. 彻底击溃 the stronger force annihilated its opponent virtually without loss 那支更强大的军队实际上丝毫未损就把对手打败了。 Example sentencesExamples The liberal and conservative parties stopped fighting in 1958 and agreed to share power while joining forces to annihilate all opposition to their two-party system. Winning away at Anfield, defeating Arsenal, annihilating Rangers home and away, all smack of a team capable of greatness. The consequences for the NNP were clear and simple: it had been annihilated as an electoral force in South Africa and the Western Cape, Selfe said. There are other styles of play, such as Team Deathmatch, where the goal is simply to annihilate the opposing forces, and Capture the Flag, but they are far less popular, and the formats aren't as suitable. This proved the best, probably only strategy in the end, and the film is finally as much about the bravery and tenacity of one gay man in the face of annihilating social forces as anything else. Asus GameFace allows you to not only talk to your opponent, but see them cringe as you annihilate them. Murikans get testy when we don't annihilate our opponents. The Clan kicked off their last season in the NAIA with a bang, annihilating the Puget Sound Loggers 39-0 at Swanguard Stadium Saturday, Sept.8. Then, in 1986, the same year that Holmes was beaten by Michael Spinks, Tyson annihilated Trevor Berbick for the WBC crown. Does the host team annihilate all opponents within three days and crush them by an innings or so? In the end, they have all fallen in front of Jones - Montell Griffin beat him once via disqualification but was annihilated in their second meeting. They annihilated Caragh in the semi final on Saturday before beating the hosts by 2-12 to 3-5 in Sunday's final. As a young man, he made his name not in student politics but in wrestling, and now he uses words and more words to annihilate and humiliate his opponents. With a quick smile to Ally, Trent got ready to annihilate his opponent. Yet on July 23, Samak annihilated his opponents to win the Bangkok governorship with a record-breaking one million votes, almost twice the total of the other 22 candidates combined. With spirits high despite the previous day's loss, Air Force showed determination and pulled together as they annihilated Navy in a strong win. The reigning champion didn't just beat his opponents - he annihilated them. Talk about wanting to annihilate opponents never wins friends and making insulting gestures at beaten teams will soon remove any lingering goodwill that the team enjoy. We annihilated our opponents, and nobody could argue about it. Well don't bother annihilating them at the ballot box, just ban them instead. Synonyms trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, bring someone to their knees 1.2Physics Convert (a subatomic particle) into radiant energy. 〔物理〕使（亚原子粒子）湮没，湮灭 Example sentencesExamples When a particle and antiparticle are brought together they annihilate each other, converting all of their mass and energy into a burst of electromagnetic radiation, and sometimes into other particles. When a particle or atom of antimatter comes into contact with a particle or atom of normal matter, both are annihilated and energy is released. At this stage of the Big Bang, the tiny expanding Universe is filled with radiation creating pairs of particles and antiparticles, and pairs of particles and antiparticles annihilating back into radiation. The problem with research in the field of anti-matter is that when the anti-matter elements touch matter elements they annihilate each other. A single quark will be surrounded by a sea of continuously appearing and annihilating virtual pairs of quarks and antiquarks, and virtual pairs of gluons and antigluons. The positronium in this proposed rocket would be shuttled from the fuel tank to the engine core, where it annihilates, producing two gamma rays that evaporate silicon carbide from the nearby surface. They annihilate each other completely and the resultant energy is high end gamma ray radiation. And so a billion particles of antimatter and a billion of matter annihilated each other and turned back into heat and one little teeny bit of matter was left over - and that's us. An important proof of the QCD theory is provided by the collisions between electrons and their antiparticles, positrons, with very high kinetic energy, when they annihilate each other. Most people have heard that anti-matter annihilates with matter and gives rise to energy. I'm not sure if the anti-matter and matter particles annihilating each other produces some kind of energy. One of the unique properties of positrons is that as soon as they make contact with electrons they annihilate to produce gamma rays. As you watch, you'll see some of the matter-antimatter pairs of electrons collide, annihilating each other and creating gamma-ray photons once again. Each small black loop represents a photon creating an electron and a positron, which then annihilate one another and produce a photon, in what is called a virtual process. These persistent structures are reminiscent of particles being created and annihilated in a quantum field theory. The prefix anti is appropriate because an electron and a positron can annihilate each other, disappearing in a burst of energy. Antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact, so keeping antimatter around requires portable matterless containers, such as magnetic fields shaped into magnetic bottles. A photon can temporarily become an electron and positron which quickly annihilate one another to reform the original photon. When a positron encounters an electron, the two annihilate each other and are converted to two gamma rays, which can easily be detected and localized in the brain. Whenever a particle meets its antiparticle counterpart, the two annihilate each other. Origin 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.
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