meaning of annihilate2
1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees.
3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc. , of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
4. Annihilated.
5. kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire
">population"
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