单词 | annihilating |
释义 | annihilatingn. The action of annihilate v. (in various senses); the fact of being annihilated; total destruction, annihilation. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation anientizement1429 deletiona1513 extincting1513 annihilment1526 exterminion1528 nulling1538 annihilation1541 exterminationc1550 nullity1555 annihilating1577 massacre1595 extinguishment1599 extinct1606 expunction1615 extinction1615 discreationa1628 nullificationa1631 nullifying1640 decreation1647 defacedness1668 extinguishinga1676 erasurea1794 exterminating1796 blotting out1808 naughting1913 wipeout1968 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 110/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I An Act..for the adnihilating of precontracts in mariage. 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 88 Though the heauens and earth must passe away, yet doth not this plainly conclude an annihilating of them, but rather a changing and renewing. 1777 G. Wilson tr. E. Coke Reports (new ed.) 7 xii. f. 25v Judges..ought not to be drawn into question for any supposed corruption, which extends to the annihilating of a record. 1883 L. A. Banks tr. S. Goebel Parables of Jesus iii. 371 Not the killing of individual persons merely, nor the extirpation of every individual member of the nation, but the annihilating of the nation. 1996 A. J. Joes Guerrilla Confl. before Cold War i. 7 The military tasks that faced the British included..the cornering and annihilating of Washington's army. 2019 @JanduToitPhoto 17 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 20 July 2021) Athiests are concerned about Christianity because of the atrocities that have been carried out under its guise. Think of the annihilating of almost the whole indigenous population of South America. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). annihilatingadj. That annihilates someone or something (in various senses of the verb). Also: characterized by annihilation.Also (and recorded earliest) as the second element in compounds in which the first element denotes the thing annihilated, as in grace-annihilating, self-annihilating, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > annihilating extinctivea1623 annihilating1629 mundicidious1647 erasive1657 uncreating1743 annihilative1764 exterminatory1790 exterminative1884 annihilationist1922 1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3 Those Semi-Pelagian and Arminian grace-annihilating Errours. a1660 H. Hammond Aξια Θεου κρισις (1665) 60 Torments executed by scorching, but not devouring and consuming, much less annihilating flames. 1786 G. M. A. Baretti Tolondron 28 It was in that annihilating letter, that Mr. Bowle..said, in an annihilating tone, as how there was in London-town an ‘odd fellow’. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/1 The patience with which he could wait, when he held his enemy in the hollow of his hand, to make his victory annihilating. 1921 T. R. Glover Jesus in Exper. Men iii. 41 A man might be saved by Bhakti, by self-annihilating devotion to a friendly god. 2017 J. Soriano Campos Visual Hist. World's Enduring Myst. 22/1 Some experts argue that those floods..probably created the Flood myth in the collective memory as the great annihilating catastrophe reflected in the Old Testament. Derivatives anˈnihilatingly adv. in an annihilating manner; so as to annihilate.Recorded earliest in hyperbolic use (cf. devastatingly adv.). ΚΠ 1840 R. Bulwer-Lytton Budget of Bubble Family I. xi. 343 ‘Doesn't Mrs. Major look particklar well in hers?’ ‘Annihilatingly so, indeed,’ smiled Cecil. 2009 M. C. Levitt Early Mod. Russ. Authors xii. 346 Chappe made a concerted effort to back up his annihilatingly negative view of Russia with (what he saw as) objective, scientific data. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1577adj.1629 |
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