Associations to the word «Annihilate»

Wiktionary

ANNIHILATE, verb. To reduce to nothing, to benothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
ANNIHILATE, verb. (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
ANNIHILATE, verb. (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.

Dictionary definition

ANNIHILATE, verb. Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats