ANNIHILATED • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Annihilated

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ənˈaɪəlˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Annihilate v. t. (past & past part. annihilated; pres. part. annihilating)

To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. "It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated."

To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army."

To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

adjective

annihilated adj.

Destroyed completely.

Synonyms: exterminated, wiped out(predicate).

See images of 'Annihilated'

Etymology of 'Annihilated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Annihilated" Quotes from Famous Books

... saying something new, but because I think it is something old which has not been sufficiently taken to heart. For the rest, this fifth scene is very beautiful and produces a deep effect. Who does not feel annihilated with the Prince when ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various

... houses burned—a price set upon their heads? The king is ready for flight. Watch! watch! a great blow is preparing—is ready to burst; if you do not prevent it by a counter blow more sudden, more terrible, the people and liberty are annihilated." ...

— Maria Antoinette - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... Eugene one of those insolent glances that measure a man from head to foot, and leave him crushed and annihilated. ...

— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac

... city of Alessandria, so long to him a thorn in the flesh, Frederick had already come to a separate agreement by consent of the league. The city was, technically, to be annihilated, and then to be refounded; it was no longer to bear the name of the Pope, but that of the Emperor. Alessandria was to become Caesarea; yet none of the Inhabitants was ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various

... assistance on one foot. Nor must I omit to mention the valiant achievements of Antony Van Corlear, who, for a good quarter of an hour, waged stubborn fight with a little pursy Swedish drummer, whose hide he drummed most magnificently, and whom he would infallibly have annihilated on the spot, but that he had come into the battle with no other ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

More quotes...