annihilate
歼灭,全歼,剿灭,歼击
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an·ni·hi·lat·ed, an·ni·hi·lat·ing.
- : to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly: The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city.
- : to destroy the collective existence or main body of; wipe out: to annihilate an army.
- : to annul; make void: to annihilate a law.
- : to cancel the effect of; nullify.
- : to defeat completely; vanquish: Our basketball team annihilated the visiting team.
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The other portion would be to annihilate hunger shortly before going to sleep.
The team knew that matter and antimatter annihilate each other when they meet.
These antistar candidates seem to give off the kind of gamma rays that are produced when antimatter — matter’s oppositely charged counterpart — meets normal matter and annihilates.
A woman with the self-possession to identify what she wants — and the nerve to go after it — was seemingly most easily understood as a function of derangement, annihilating narcissism or both.
She might be watching from 565 miles away, but she’s got a Sweet 16 to follow with hope, a son annihilating expectations and a No.
The J in its name actually stands for Jian—annihilate, eliminate.
“Thirty minutes alone with a man is enough for him to annihilate you,” she remarks, knowingly.
Finally there was the atomic bomb (and the Cold War it created): machine threatened to annihilate all of mankind.
He then went on to compare us to Amalek, the Biblical nation that God commands the Jews to annihilate.
The consequences of the repeated failed attempts to annihilate Israel should and will be reflected in the final status.
To pretend that God can be offended with the actions of men, is to annihilate all the ideas that are given to us of this being.
They are the spontaneous enemies of truth because they justly apprehend it will their pretensions.