0 present participle of annihilate
1 to destroy something completely so that nothing is left:
He was annihilated in the finals of the competition.
He acknowledges the ways in which science is a "destroyer," annihilating belief in myth, legend, and fantasy with its empirical outlook.
It is thus of particular importance to be ready at all times to subject the aggressor to an annihilating defeat.
He was shocked by the chaos and deep suffering, and felt part of the annihilating process.
But, as we have seen, there might be another way to cut short his time without annihilating him.
The anyons have a certain probability of annihilating each other (leaving a vacuum) when brought together.
Closing the blinds to reduce the available information suppresses motion sickness by annihilating the conflicting information provided by the two visual referents (cabin and landscape).
A constant tension between competing discourses, between creating, preserving, and annihilating memories, characterized the set-up of war remembrance.
There are many steps which can be taken to make it less dangerous and less annihilating than it might otherwise be.
