different between vandalize vs annihilate

English

Alternative forms

• vandalise (chiefly British)

Etymology

vandal +? -ize

Verb

vandalize (third-person singular simple present vandalizes, present participle vandalizing, simple past and past participle vandalized)

1. US, Canada, and Oxford British English standard spelling of vandalise.

Derived terms

• vandalisation, vandalization

Related terms

• vandal
• vandalism

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

vandalize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vandalizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vandalizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vandalizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vandalizar

English

Etymology

From Latin annihil? (“I reduce to nothing”), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??na??.le?t/

Verb

annihilate (third-person singular simple present annihilates, present participle annihilating, simple past and past participle annihilated)

1. To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

   An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.

2. (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
3. (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
4. (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.

Synonyms

• (to reduce to nothing): benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish
• See also Thesaurus:destroy

Antonyms

• (to reduce to nothing): create, generate

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

annihil?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of annihil?