annihilate

verb

1. 1

   To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

   An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.

   But eagerness in this case, as in most others, annihilated its own delight; down came the tottering height, while the disappointed builder found relief for his sorrow in anger—sorrow's best remedy after all.

2. 2

   To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).

3. 3

   archaicTo treat as worthless, to vilify.

   of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.

4. 4

   To render null and void; to abrogate.

   The official Soviet criticism of 'bourgeois philosophy' took for granted that the latter in its various forms was a repetition of the idealist nonsense of Mach and Avenarius, which had been annihilated by Lenin's refutation.

5. 5

   To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator.

Forms

past tense

annihilated

past participle

annihilated

present participle

annihilating

third person singular

annihilates