annihilation
noun/əˌnaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
Etymology
From Middle French annihilation, from Latin annihilātiō. By surface analysis, annihilate + -ion.
- derived from annihilātiō
- borrowed from annihilation
Definitions
The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so…
The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
- the annihilation of a corporation
The state of being annihilated.
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The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
The neighborhood
- antonymcreationantonym(s) of “act of reducing to nothing”
- antonymgenerationantonym(s) of “act of reducing to nothing”
- neighborannihilable
- neighborannihilate
- neighborannihilative
- neighborannihilator
- neighborannihilatory
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for annihilation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA