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To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
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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).particle
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To treat as worthless, to vilify.archaic
- 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.
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To render null and void; to abrogate.transitive
- 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.
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To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator.
ant. create · generate