| 释义 |
annihilate /ə-nīˈ(h)i-lāt/ transitive verb- To reduce to nothing
- To put out of existence
- To crush or wither by look or word (figurative)
- To defeat completely (informal)
- To cause (a subatomic particle) to undergo annihilation (physics)
intransitive verb (physics)To undergo annihilation ORIGIN: L annihilāre, -ātum, from ad to, and nihil nothing annīhilāˈtion noun - Reduction to nothing
- A crushing defeat
- The destruction of soul as well as body (theology)
- The process by which a particle and its corresponding antiparticle (eg an electron and a positron) combine and are spontaneously transformed into radiation (annihilation radiation) (physics)
annīhilāˈtionism noun The belief that the soul (esp of the unrepentant wicked) dies with the body annīˈhilātive adjective annīˈhilātor noun |