0 past simple and past participle of annihilate
1 to destroy something completely so that nothing is left:
He was annihilated in the finals of the competition.
Classical work on meteoroid ablation suggests that these particles should be annihilated by atmospheric deceleration.
The army annihilated, or ethnically cleansed, the village.
Finally, decoders are annihilated by their duals when a generalised sharing has been completely decoded.
In the abbot's somewhat outlandish style, the former archbishop is referred to as one 'whose memory is not to be annihilated'.
When hitting an electron, a positron is annihilated.
In this run, the initial state exhibited a sink -that is, a fixed spatial point where roll pairs are annihilated.
Although every rogue cancer cell may be annihilated, the psychological echo may resonate for decades.
Hence, if the living creatures were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.
