annihilatev.

Brit.

/əˈnʌɪəleɪt/, U.S.

/əˈnaɪəˌleɪt/

Forms: 1500s adnihillate, 1500s adnychilate, 1500s annichillate, 1500s annychilate, 1500s–1600s adnichilate, 1500s–1600s adnihilate, 1500s–1600s annichilate, 1500s– annihilate, 1600s anihilate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin annihilat-, adnihilat-, annihilare, adnihilare.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin annihilat-, adnihilat-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of annihilare, adnihilare to reduce to nothing, destroy (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), to annul (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), to invalidate (13th cent.), to make light of (15th cent. in a British glossarial source) < classical Latin ad- ad- prefix + nihil nihil n. Compare earlier annihil v., and also earlier annihilate adj.Compare Middle French, French annihiler and variants (see annihil v.), Old Occitan anichiler (?1350), Catalan anihilar (15th cent.), Spanish anihilar (early 15th cent. as †anichilar), Portuguese aniilar (1589 as †anihilar), Italian annichilare (a1306).

1. transitive. To annul, revoke, or abolish (a law, treaty, right, etc.); to render null and void or of no effect; to invalidate.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid

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cancel-

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cliii. 421 That shulde breke or adnychilate..the alyances that hath been sworne.

1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica Addr. Royal Soc. sig. a To annihilate all such arguments.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xv. 102 These..rights..you can no more annihilate, than you can the soil to which they are annexed.

1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. viii. 325 Annihilate law, and moral order is no more.

1906 Spectator 27 Sept. 149/2 The fire protection existing when the insurance was written was practically annihilated by the earthquake.

2006 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 5 Sept. Tax protesters on the far right..are constantly trying to narrow or annihilate the 16th Amendment.

2. transitive. To treat (something) as non-existent; to consider or render worthless or insignificant. Now rare (archaic and poetic in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (transitive)] > treat as non-existent

annihilate1542

1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier xlvi. sig. R.ij Howe were the singulare merites of Christes death..adnihilated & set at nought.

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 21 The effect and affection of men..Pharisaïcally ἐξουθενεῖν to annihilate all others.

1748 H. Walpole Three Lett. to Whigs iii. 71 Was not every Art used to depreciate, to annihilate this Victory!

a1843 R. Southey Amatory Poems Sonn. iii, in Poet. Wks. (1853) III. 119 For Love annihilates the world to me!

a1916 J. Todhunter tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (1924) i. xiv. 127 He lowers me in mine own eyes, with a word's breath Annihilates the gifts thou gavest me.

1996 S. Barker Hand in Well ii. 22 Why do you annihilate existence?

a. transitive. To reduce (a person or thing) to nothing. Later chiefly: to wipe (a person, ethnic or religious group, organism, etc.) out of existence; to destroy completely, to obliterate, exterminate, eradicate, etc. Also used without necessarily implying utter destruction or obliteration: to eliminate almost entirely, to all but eradicate.In quot. 1567 with reference to the reduction in the Eucharist of the substance of the bread and wine to nothing (see transubstantiation n. 2). Cf. annihilation n. 2a.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence

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to tear to shreds1837

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to take out1900

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1567 J. Rastell Briefe Shew False Wares iv. f. 45 It [sc. bread] keepeth stil a being (because it is not annihilated, and vtterly made nothing).

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 112/2 Till the wormes be totally annihilatede or consumede.

1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 151 The vestiges of the Roman camp..are almost annihilated.

1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. ix. 182 If all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.

1866 J. Gamgee Cattle Plague i. 141 The only sure and certain way to annihilate this virus is to destroy the animals which by their sickness indicate its presence.

1955 Bull. Atomic Sci. Mar. 85/3 A war fought with the nuclear weapons would annihilate whole countries.

1990 Garden Answers Nov. 57/2 Pigeons and jays can cause a lot of damage and are especially fond of brassicas and peas, while sparrows will annihilate seedlings.

2013 Eng. Educ. 45 294 Mein Kampf is marshaled by some historians as evidence suggesting that Hitler's intention to systematically annihilate the Jews coalesced relatively early on.

b. transitive. To destroy (an immaterial thing); to put an end to, do away with, extinguish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence

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1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 175 Idlenes annihilateth and corrupteth the goodnes of nature.

1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Ded. 1 Who make profession in word..but in deed and effect do annihilate..the power and efficacie thereof.

1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 52 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Ye Gods! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two Lovers happy.

1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 473 That event has totally annihilated all order and discipline.

1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose ii. viii. 81 So much of the past is annihilated and swept away.

1992 Unesco Courier Mar. 10/1 The rise of modern patriarchy tended to kill the feminine principle in all its fullness, and in particular to annihilate it totally in man.

c. transitive. Theology. Chiefly of God: to destroy (a person's soul) after death; to end the existence of (a person) completely, body and soul.Frequently with reference to unrepentant sinners: see annihilation n. 2b.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [verb (transitive)] > destroy

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1640 W. Habington Castara (ed. 3) iii. 173 Death..not annihilates, but uncloudes the soule.

1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity vii. 94 If God can eternally annihilate even an innocent Being, he may do more eternally to the Guilty.

1879 Phrenolog. Jrnl. Dec. 327/2 If the soul is immortal it can not die, even if it sins, unless God annihilates it.

1902 Union Seminary Mag. Apr. 264 His soul died, but was not annihilated.

1983 M. Gardner Whys of Philos. Scrivener (1999) xix. 308 Even the Schoolmen, who believed the soul to be intrinsically immortal, took for granted that God could annihilate a soul if he liked.

2006 P. N. Benware Understanding End Times Prophecy (rev. ed.) xviii. Several theologians within the evangelical church..proclaim that God will annihilate the wicked since He is too loving and kind to inflict everlasting misery on His creatures.

a. transitive. To put an end to the authority or control of (a person, dynasty, political regime, etc.); to reduce to powerlessness; to ruin.

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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]

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to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533

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to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576

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to take (a person) a peg lower1589

to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589

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to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592

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to put a scorn on, upon1633

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to put a person's pipe out1720

to let down1747

to set down1753

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to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789

start1821

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to wipe a person's eye1823

to crop the feathers of1827

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to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864

to sit upon ——1864

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to cut out of all feather1865

to sit on ——1868

to turn down1870

to score off1882

to do (a person) in the eye1891

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to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

to cut down to size1927

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to slap (a person) down1938

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1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xii. 362 Such a power as this, of deposing and annihilating Kings, bee necessarie, and certaine in the Church.

1628 T. Roe tr. P. Sarpi Disc. Reasons of Resol. against Grisons & Heretiques 63 To ruine, destroy, and annihilate the Roman faction, in their Countrey.

1795 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XLII. 472 An intention of the First Lord of the Treasury to degrade and annihilate the whig party.

1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII Prooimion 6 Royalty, aristocracy, government, bureaucracy, all annihilated, and Anarchy in excelsis.

1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 iv. 128 The independent Liberals were annihilated. Every one of their former ministers lost his seat.

2020 S. Rushdie in Irish Independent (Nexis) 5 June 12 The ‘emergency’, as it became known, ended only when she called an election, believing she would win, and was annihilated at the polls.

b. transitive. To destroy the collective strength, coherence, or effectiveness of (a body or unified entity), such as to bring about total or effective incapacitation or elimination; to conquer or crush (a military opponent); esp. to put (an army) to rout.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated in [verb (transitive)] > defeat or overthrow (a person or thing)

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1757 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 525/2 Having not only defeated, but in a manner annihilated, an army of 60,000 men.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. i. 239 At length, after various plunges and various escapes, it [sc. the Eastern empire] was totally annihilated in the fifteenth century.

1808 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 115 We only wanted a few hundred more cavalry to annihilate the French army.

1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine iii. 50 Near the mouth of the Nile Nelson annihilated the fleet of Napoleon.

1946 T. G. Chase Story of Lithuania i. 3 The Old Prussians..were annihilated by the Teutonic Knights.

2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 3 Dec. a21/5 Encircling and then annihilating a French army between two German pincers.

c. transitive. To put down or humiliate (a person).

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1881 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. in Notes & Queries (1882) 28 Jan. 65/1 ‘He cussed that fellow out’, i.e., he annihilated him verbally.

1967 Life 13 Oct. 63/4 She hits precisely the right light tone in annihilating a stuffed shirt.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Oct. c1/1 Catfighting in the fashion world doesn't always have to bow to cliché. People are apparently capable of annihilating each other in novel ways.

d. transitive. Sport. To defeat (an opponent) resoundingly or decisively.

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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > defeat

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1886 Northern Daily Mail 19 Nov. 3/5 At the same time Lancashire were busy annihilating Cheshire by 3 goals and 3 tries.

1903 Manch. Courier 1 July 9/7 To our mind the game [sc. tennis] requires shortening without making it more easy for a good man to annihilate a medium player.

1996 Daily Record (Nexis) 10 Jan. 46 (headline) Berwick annihilated 16-0 by Dundee United.

2012 B. McGinn Ultimate Super Bowl Bk. (ed. 2) 152/1 Needing an overwhelming triumph in the Super Bowl to validate their greatness, they punched it up a notch and annihilated the New England Patriots, 46-10, at the Louisiana Superdrome.

†5. intransitive. To vanish completely; to dwindle to nothing. Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist

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to die out1853

to come, go, etc. by the board1859

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1656 J. Evelyn Ess. 1st Bk. Lucretius 125 If there be any thing in the world which seems totally to perish and annihilate, it is a shower of rain.

1787 T. Jefferson Let. 1 Aug. in Papers (1955) XI. 656 Their calling is in fact annihilating.

1788 J. Wesley Serm. Several Occasions V. 17 This ocean is annihilating, at the rate of one drop in a thousand years.

6. transitive. To consume (a quantity of food or drink) in its entirety, esp. in a voracious manner.In quot. 1815 as part of an extended metaphor; cf. sense 4b.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously

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to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616

to make a (also one's) meal of1622

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1815 R. Rylance Epicure's Almanack 148 Whole corps of beef, mutton, lamb, veal, pork, as well as many light divisions of pies, puddings, peas, sallads, vale-royal Cheshire cheese, Gloster, single and double, are cut to pieces, and, as the French used to say, annihilated.

1957 F. Kohner Gidget 127 They had already annihilated kegs of beer and started to get fractured on Gallic wine.

2013 @_tawme 26 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 23 May 2019) I'm so hungry I think I could annihilate the 20 pound turkey in the fridge by myself.

7. Particle Physics.

a. transitive. To convert (matter) into energy; spec. to cause (a subatomic particle) to combine with its equivalent antiparticle so that the mass of both is transformed into energy. Frequently in passive. Cf. annihilation n. 5.Typically, when a particle and an antiparticle are annihilated (for example at high energy in a particle accelerator), the energy produced almost instantaneously transforms into new particles. These particles are usually different from those in the original interaction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [verb (transitive)] > convert into energy

annihilate1916

1916 A. C. Ridsdale in Jrnl. Astron. Soc. India 7 Nos. 1–3. 21 The doctrine of the ‘conservation of energy’ is overthrown if positive and negative electrons can annihilate one another.

1977 S. Weinberg First Three Minutes iv. 80 Nuclear reactions, in which a fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated.

2015 @perthobs 24 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Jan. 2019) The positron emitted by the beta-decay is almost immediately annihilated with an electron.

b. intransitive. Of a subatomic particle: to undergo annihilation; to combine with its equivalent antiparticle so that the mass of both is transformed into energy (and thereafter into other forms of matter). Cf. annihilation n. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [verb (intransitive)] > undergo annihilation

annihilate1939

1939 Proc. Physico-Math. Soc. Japan 21 389 Most of positrons penetrate through the cellophane foil and reach the walls of the source room where they annihilate.

1979 Nature 29 Mar. 406/1 It is assumed that in the collision an anti-quark of the (qq) sea in one hadron annihilates with a quark in the other hadron resulting in the creation of a lepton pair.

2018 @kerr_laserpope 14 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Jan. 2019) Quarks and antiquarks annihilate and create pions, which are either neutral or charged.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

单词	annihilate
释义	† annihilateadj. Forms: Middle English annichilhate, Middle English–1500s adnichilat, Middle English–1500s adnychylate, 1500s adnichillate, 1500s adnychelate, 1500s adnychilate, 1500s annichilate, 1500s–1600s adnichilate, 1500s–1600s adnihilate, 1500s–1800s annihilate, 1600s anihilate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin annihilatus, annihilare. Etymology: < post-classical Latin annihilatus, past participle of annihilare annihilate v. Superseded by annihilated adj.With the formal variation compare discussion at annihilate v. N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (ănəi·hĭleⁱt) /əˈnaɪhɪleɪt/. As past participle. Obsolete. 1. Reduced to nothing; obliterated, utterly destroyed. archaic or poetic in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > annihilating > completely destroyed or annihilated quencheda1382 annihilatec1400 extincta1513 unfabricate1630 unbeened1642 non-ented1643 annihilated1647 self-annihilated1677 annihiled1691 defaced1776 exterminated1813 dis-created1879 c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 484 Þat was brede bifore þo consecracione, is turned into nouȝt, þat þai clepen adnichilat, or brouȝt to nouȝt. ?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. e.iii^v If the worlde were adnichilate and turned to nought a gayn. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ii. 65 The sollace of life, is by such a restraint opprest, and by degrees adnichilate. 1795 R. Southey Joan of Arc I. 531 All sense of self annihilate, I seem'd Diffused into the scene. 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 450 How Shall flesh and spirit thus together be,..yet flesh not be annihilate, As water dropp'd on fire? 1890 S. Lane-Poole Barbary Corsairs i. iv. 50 A violent tempest drove their ships ashore, insomuch that this mighty expedition was all but annihilate. 2. Rendered null and void; revoked, annulled. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > annulled, cancelled, revoked derogate1430 revocate?1440 revoked1461 abrogatea1464 annihilate?a1475 cassate1519 cancelled1539 dissolved?1541 abolished1546 dissoluted1606 aniente1636 retracted1676 red-lined1966 ?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 500 (MED) That commission grawnted was revocate and annichilhate in that parliamente. 1544 Act 35 Henry VIII c. 1 §7 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 957 I repute the same [Othe] as vayne & adnihilate. 1642 R. Burney Answer Observ. 13 His sacred Maiestie that intrusted hath deposited the Votes Anihilate of all his people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). annihilatev. Brit. /əˈnʌɪəleɪt/, U.S. /əˈnaɪəˌleɪt/ Forms: 1500s adnihillate, 1500s adnychilate, 1500s annichillate, 1500s annychilate, 1500s–1600s adnichilate, 1500s–1600s adnihilate, 1500s–1600s annichilate, 1500s– annihilate, 1600s anihilate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin annihilat-, adnihilat-, annihilare, adnihilare. Etymology: < post-classical Latin annihilat-, adnihilat-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of annihilare, adnihilare to reduce to nothing, destroy (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), to annul (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), to invalidate (13th cent.), to make light of (15th cent. in a British glossarial source) < classical Latin ad- ad- prefix + nihil nihil n. Compare earlier annihil v., and also earlier annihilate adj.Compare Middle French, French annihiler and variants (see annihil v.), Old Occitan anichiler (?1350), Catalan anihilar (15th cent.), Spanish anihilar (early 15th cent. as †anichilar), Portuguese aniilar (1589 as †anihilar), Italian annichilare (a1306). 1. transitive. To annul, revoke, or abolish (a law, treaty, right, etc.); to render null and void or of no effect; to invalidate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid wanea889 voida1340 avoidc1375 abolishc1475 disnull1509 disannula1513 annihilate1525 evacuate1526 aniente1528 extinct1530 disable1548 extinguish1548 solute1550 destitutea1563 exinanitea1575 cashier1596 devoid1601 shorta1616 supersede1618 vitiate1627 invalidate1649 out1653 vacate1662 exinanitiate1698 atheticize1701 squasha1777 invalid1827 negate1837 negative1837 unsanction1854 cancel- 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cliii. 421 That shulde breke or adnychilate..the alyances that hath been sworne. 1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica Addr. Royal Soc. sig. a To annihilate all such arguments. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xv. 102 These..rights..you can no more annihilate, than you can the soil to which they are annexed. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. viii. 325 Annihilate law, and moral order is no more. 1906 Spectator 27 Sept. 149/2 The fire protection existing when the insurance was written was practically annihilated by the earthquake. 2006 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 5 Sept. Tax protesters on the far right..are constantly trying to narrow or annihilate the 16th Amendment. 2. transitive. To treat (something) as non-existent; to consider or render worthless or insignificant. Now rare (archaic and poetic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (transitive)] > treat as non-existent annihilate1542 1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier xlvi. sig. R.ij Howe were the singulare merites of Christes death..adnihilated & set at nought. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 21 The effect and affection of men..Pharisaïcally ἐξουθενεῖν to annihilate all others. 1748 H. Walpole Three Lett. to Whigs iii. 71 Was not every Art used to depreciate, to annihilate this Victory! a1843 R. Southey Amatory Poems Sonn. iii, in Poet. Wks. (1853) III. 119 For Love annihilates the world to me! a1916 J. Todhunter tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (1924) i. xiv. 127 He lowers me in mine own eyes, with a word's breath Annihilates the gifts thou gavest me. 1996 S. Barker Hand in Well ii. 22 Why do you annihilate existence? 3. a. transitive. To reduce (a person or thing) to nothing. Later chiefly: to wipe (a person, ethnic or religious group, organism, etc.) out of existence; to destroy completely, to obliterate, exterminate, eradicate, etc. Also used without necessarily implying utter destruction or obliteration: to eliminate almost entirely, to all but eradicate.In quot. 1567 with reference to the reduction in the Eucharist of the substance of the bread and wine to nothing (see transubstantiation n. 2). Cf. annihilation n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence dilghec897 defacec1386 annul1395 anientec1400 refer?c1400 extinct1484 annihil1490 delete1495 out-terma1500 perspoil1523 extaintc1540 extinguish1555 blot1561 wipe1564 to cut the throat of1565 annihilate1567 dissipatea1575 annihilate1586 nullify1609 nullize1615 expunge1628 nothing1637 null1647 extramund1654 be-nothing1674 erase1728 obliterate1798 simoom1821 to tear to shreds1837 snuff1852 mop1859 to take out1900 napoo1915 naught1958 1567 J. Rastell Briefe Shew False Wares iv. f. 45 It [sc. bread] keepeth stil a being (because it is not annihilated, and vtterly made nothing). 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 112/2 Till the wormes be totally annihilatede or consumede. 1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 151 The vestiges of the Roman camp..are almost annihilated. 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. ix. 182 If all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. 1866 J. Gamgee Cattle Plague i. 141 The only sure and certain way to annihilate this virus is to destroy the animals which by their sickness indicate its presence. 1955 Bull. Atomic Sci. Mar. 85/3 A war fought with the nuclear weapons would annihilate whole countries. 1990 Garden Answers Nov. 57/2 Pigeons and jays can cause a lot of damage and are especially fond of brassicas and peas, while sparrows will annihilate seedlings. 2013 Eng. Educ. 45 294 Mein Kampf is marshaled by some historians as evidence suggesting that Hitler's intention to systematically annihilate the Jews coalesced relatively early on. b. transitive. To destroy (an immaterial thing); to put an end to, do away with, extinguish. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence dilghec897 defacec1386 annul1395 anientec1400 refer?c1400 extinct1484 annihil1490 delete1495 out-terma1500 perspoil1523 extaintc1540 extinguish1555 blot1561 wipe1564 to cut the throat of1565 annihilate1567 dissipatea1575 annihilate1586 nullify1609 nullize1615 expunge1628 nothing1637 null1647 extramund1654 be-nothing1674 erase1728 obliterate1798 simoom1821 to tear to shreds1837 snuff1852 mop1859 to take out1900 napoo1915 naught1958 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 175 Idlenes annihilateth and corrupteth the goodnes of nature. 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Ded. 1 Who make profession in word..but in deed and effect do annihilate..the power and efficacie thereof. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 52 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Ye Gods! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two Lovers happy. 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 473 That event has totally annihilated all order and discipline. 1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose ii. viii. 81 So much of the past is annihilated and swept away. 1992 Unesco Courier Mar. 10/1 The rise of modern patriarchy tended to kill the feminine principle in all its fullness, and in particular to annihilate it totally in man. c. transitive. Theology. Chiefly of God: to destroy (a person's soul) after death; to end the existence of (a person) completely, body and soul.Frequently with reference to unrepentant sinners: see annihilation n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [verb (transitive)] > destroy spillc1290 annihilate1640 1640 W. Habington Castara (ed. 3) iii. 173 Death..not annihilates, but uncloudes the soule. 1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity vii. 94 If God can eternally annihilate even an innocent Being, he may do more eternally to the Guilty. 1879 Phrenolog. Jrnl. Dec. 327/2 If the soul is immortal it can not die, even if it sins, unless God annihilates it. 1902 Union Seminary Mag. Apr. 264 His soul died, but was not annihilated. 1983 M. Gardner Whys of Philos. Scrivener (1999) xix. 308 Even the Schoolmen, who believed the soul to be intrinsically immortal, took for granted that God could annihilate a soul if he liked. 2006 P. N. Benware Understanding End Times Prophecy (rev. ed.) xviii. Several theologians within the evangelical church..proclaim that God will annihilate the wicked since He is too loving and kind to inflict everlasting misery on His creatures. 4. a. transitive. To put an end to the authority or control of (a person, dynasty, political regime, etc.); to reduce to powerlessness; to ruin. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xii. 362 Such a power as this, of deposing and annihilating Kings, bee necessarie, and certaine in the Church. 1628 T. Roe tr. P. Sarpi Disc. Reasons of Resol. against Grisons & Heretiques 63 To ruine, destroy, and annihilate the Roman faction, in their Countrey. 1795 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XLII. 472 An intention of the First Lord of the Treasury to degrade and annihilate the whig party. 1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII Prooimion 6 Royalty, aristocracy, government, bureaucracy, all annihilated, and Anarchy in excelsis. 1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 iv. 128 The independent Liberals were annihilated. Every one of their former ministers lost his seat. 2020 S. Rushdie in Irish Independent (Nexis) 5 June 12 The ‘emergency’, as it became known, ended only when she called an election, believing she would win, and was annihilated at the polls. b. transitive. To destroy the collective strength, coherence, or effectiveness of (a body or unified entity), such as to bring about total or effective incapacitation or elimination; to conquer or crush (a military opponent); esp. to put (an army) to rout. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated in [verb (transitive)] > defeat or overthrow (a person or thing) prostrate1531 downthrow1563 annihilate1757 slosh1921 1757 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 525/2 Having not only defeated, but in a manner annihilated, an army of 60,000 men. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. i. 239 At length, after various plunges and various escapes, it [sc. the Eastern empire] was totally annihilated in the fifteenth century. 1808 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 115 We only wanted a few hundred more cavalry to annihilate the French army. 1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine iii. 50 Near the mouth of the Nile Nelson annihilated the fleet of Napoleon. 1946 T. G. Chase Story of Lithuania i. 3 The Old Prussians..were annihilated by the Teutonic Knights. 2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 3 Dec. a21/5 Encircling and then annihilating a French army between two German pincers. c. transitive. To put down or humiliate (a person). ΚΠ 1881 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. in Notes & Queries (1882) 28 Jan. 65/1 ‘He cussed that fellow out’, i.e., he annihilated him verbally. 1967 Life 13 Oct. 63/4 She hits precisely the right light tone in annihilating a stuffed shirt. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Oct. c1/1 Catfighting in the fashion world doesn't always have to bow to cliché. People are apparently capable of annihilating each other in novel ways. d. transitive. Sport. To defeat (an opponent) resoundingly or decisively. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > defeat overplayc1460 smother1676 lurch1678 outplay1702 thrash1789 defeat1830 spreadeagle1832 thresh1852 whitewash1867 blank1870 annihilate1886 nip1893 slam1907 plaster1919 skittle1919 rip1927 maul1928 demolish1938 massacre1940 trounce1942 hammer1948 murder1952 to shut out1952 zilch1957 zip1964 trip1974 1886 Northern Daily Mail 19 Nov. 3/5 At the same time Lancashire were busy annihilating Cheshire by 3 goals and 3 tries. 1903 Manch. Courier 1 July 9/7 To our mind the game [sc. tennis] requires shortening without making it more easy for a good man to annihilate a medium player. 1996 Daily Record (Nexis) 10 Jan. 46 (headline) Berwick annihilated 16-0 by Dundee United. 2012 B. McGinn Ultimate Super Bowl Bk. (ed. 2) 152/1 Needing an overwhelming triumph in the Super Bowl to validate their greatness, they punched it up a notch and annihilated the New England Patriots, 46-10, at the Louisiana Superdrome. †5. intransitive. To vanish completely; to dwindle to nothing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist tirec725 endOE forfareOE goc1175 fleec1200 to wend awayc1225 diea1240 to-melta1240 to pass awaya1325 flit1340 perishc1350 vanisha1375 decorre1377 cease1382 dispend1393 failc1400 overshakec1425 surcease1439 adrawc1450 fall1523 decease1538 define1562 fleet1576 expire1595 evanish1597 extinguish1599 extirp1606 disappear1623 evaporatea1631 trans-shift1648 annihilate1656 exolve1657 cancela1667 to pass off1699 to burn out, forth1832 spark1845 to die out1853 to come, go, etc. by the board1859 sputter1964 1656 J. Evelyn Ess. 1st Bk. Lucretius 125 If there be any thing in the world which seems totally to perish and annihilate, it is a shower of rain. 1787 T. Jefferson Let. 1 Aug. in Papers (1955) XI. 656 Their calling is in fact annihilating. 1788 J. Wesley Serm. Several Occasions V. 17 This ocean is annihilating, at the rate of one drop in a thousand years. 6. transitive. To consume (a quantity of food or drink) in its entirety, esp. in a voracious manner.In quot. 1815 as part of an extended metaphor; cf. sense 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously forswallowOE gulch?c1225 afretea1350 moucha1350 glop1362 gloup1362 forglut1393 worrya1400 globbec1400 forsling1481 slonk1481 franch1519 gull1530 to eat up1535 to swallow up1535 engorge1541 gulp1542 ramp1542 slosh1548 raven1557 slop1575 yolp1579 devour1586 to throw oneself on1592 paunch1599 tire1599 glut1600 batten1604 frample1606 gobbet1607 to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616 to make a (also one's) meal of1622 gorge1631 demolish1639 gourmanda1657 guttle1685 to gawp up1728 nyam1790 gamp1805 slummock1808 annihilate1815 gollop1823 punish1825 engulf1829 hog1836 scoff1846 brosier1850 to pack away1855 wolf1861 locust1868 wallop1892 guts1934 murder1935 woof1943 pelicana1953 pig1979 1815 R. Rylance Epicure's Almanack 148 Whole corps of beef, mutton, lamb, veal, pork, as well as many light divisions of pies, puddings, peas, sallads, vale-royal Cheshire cheese, Gloster, single and double, are cut to pieces, and, as the French used to say, annihilated. 1957 F. Kohner Gidget 127 They had already annihilated kegs of beer and started to get fractured on Gallic wine. 2013 @_tawme 26 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 23 May 2019) I'm so hungry I think I could annihilate the 20 pound turkey in the fridge by myself. 7. Particle Physics. a. transitive. To convert (matter) into energy; spec. to cause (a subatomic particle) to combine with its equivalent antiparticle so that the mass of both is transformed into energy. Frequently in passive. Cf. annihilation n. 5.Typically, when a particle and an antiparticle are annihilated (for example at high energy in a particle accelerator), the energy produced almost instantaneously transforms into new particles. These particles are usually different from those in the original interaction. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [verb (transitive)] > convert into energy annihilate1916 1916 A. C. Ridsdale in Jrnl. Astron. Soc. India 7 Nos. 1–3. 21 The doctrine of the ‘conservation of energy’ is overthrown if positive and negative electrons can annihilate one another. 1977 S. Weinberg First Three Minutes iv. 80 Nuclear reactions, in which a fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated. 2015 @perthobs 24 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Jan. 2019) The positron emitted by the beta-decay is almost immediately annihilated with an electron. b. intransitive. Of a subatomic particle: to undergo annihilation; to combine with its equivalent antiparticle so that the mass of both is transformed into energy (and thereafter into other forms of matter). Cf. annihilation n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [verb (intransitive)] > undergo annihilation annihilate1939 1939 Proc. Physico-Math. Soc. Japan 21 389 Most of positrons penetrate through the cellophane foil and reach the walls of the source room where they annihilate. 1979 Nature 29 Mar. 406/1 It is assumed that in the collision an anti-quark of the (qq) sea in one hadron annihilates with a quark in the other hadron resulting in the creation of a lepton pair. 2018 @kerr_laserpope 14 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Jan. 2019) Quarks and antiquarks annihilate and create pions, which are either neutral or charged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < adj.c1400v.1525
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