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annihilate

verb
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪt/
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they annihilate
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪt/
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪt/
he / she / it annihilates
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪts/
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past simple annihilated
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪtɪd/
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪtɪd/
past participle annihilated
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪtɪd/
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪtɪd/
-ing form annihilating
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪtɪŋ/
🔊/əˈnaɪəleɪtɪŋ/
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  1. annihilate somebody/something/yourself to destroy somebody/something/yourself completely消灭；歼灭；毁灭
    • The human race has enough weapons to annihilate itself.人类有足够的武器灭绝自己。🔊🔊
  2. annihilate somebody/something to defeat somebody/something completely彻底击败
    • She annihilated her opponent, who failed to win a single game.她大获全胜，对方连一局也没有赢。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (originally as an adjective meaning ‘destroyed, annulled’): from late Latin annihilatus ‘reduced to nothing’, from the verb annihilare, from ad- ‘to’ + nihil ‘nothing’. The sense ‘destroy utterly’ dates from the mid 16th cent.