Annihilate

(v. t.) To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(a.) Annihilated.

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• Annihilate that doubt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It has reappeared to annihilate me, all through my life, in connexion with all kinds of subjects. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• For it is this that the Commission proposes to repress, and ultimately to annihilate. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Archer crumpled up the yellow sheet as if the gesture could annihilate the news it contained. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• They endeavoured, therefore, to annihilate his trade altogether. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• He had troops enough even to annihilate him in the open field. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• They were going to annihilate us by force of numbers--that was quite evidently their plan. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• But you shan't be annihilated, George. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• It stunned her and annihilated her, but she could not escape it. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Had it contained confirmation, she must have been annihilated. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• The imagination tells us, that our resembling perceptions have a continued and uninterrupted existence, and are not annihilated by their absence. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• Here then may arise two questions; First, How we can satisfy ourselves in supposing a perception to be absent from the mind without being annihilated. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• Poland was ravaged, and a mixed army of Poles and Germans was annihilated at the battle of Liegnitz in Lower Silesia in 1241. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Nor is there any need of insisting again that the ultimate ideal of annihilating prostitution has nothing to expect from the concrete proposals that were made. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• All was serene, burning, annihilating. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• This seemed like annihilating space. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.

整理:威爾伯