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annihilation

English

Etymology

From Middle French annihilation, from Latin ad (to) + nihil (nothing).Morphologically annihilate +? -ion

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??na?.??le?.??n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n
  • Hyphenation: an?ni?hi?la?tion

Noun

annihilation (countable and uncountable, plural annihilations)

  1. The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence
  2. 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
  3. The state of being annihilated.
    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
      If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.
  4. (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Synonyms

  • (act of reducing to nothing): extinction, eradication
  • (state of being annihilated): extinction

Antonyms

  • (act of reducing to nothing): creation, generation
  • (state of being annihilated): generation

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Further reading

  • annihilation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • annihilation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • annihilation at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

annihiler +? -ation

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ni.i.la.sj??/

Noun

annihilation f (plural annihilations)

  1. annihilation

References

  • “annihilation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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extirpation

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

extirpation (countable and uncountable, plural extirpations)

  1. The act of extirpating or uprooting.
    • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
      it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices

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French

Noun

extirpation f (plural extirpations)

  1. extirpation

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