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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Annihilate \An*ni"hi*late\ (an*n[imac]"h[i^]*l[asl]t), a. Annihilated. [Archaic] --Swift. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Annihilate \An*ni"hi*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Annihilated}; p. pr & vb n. {Annihilating}.] [L. annihilare ad + nihilum nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread, nothing at all Cf {File}, a row.] 1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of to cause to cease to be It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. --Bacon. 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. ``To annihilate the army.'' --Macaulay. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: annihilate v : kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: {eliminate}, {extinguish}, {eradicate}, {wipe out}, {decimate}, {carry off}]
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