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单词 annihilate
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annihilateadj.

Forms: Middle English annichilhate, Middle English–1500s adnichilat, Middle English–1500s adnychylate, 1500s adnichillate, 1500s adnychelate, 1500s adnychilate, 1500s annichilate, 1500s–1600s adnichilate, 1500s–1600s adnihilate, 1500s–1800s annihilate, 1600s anihilate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin annihilatus, annihilare.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin annihilatus, past participle of annihilare annihilate v. Superseded by annihilated adj.With the formal variation compare discussion at annihilate v. N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (ănəi·hĭleit) /əˈnaɪhɪleɪt/.
As past participle. Obsolete.
1. Reduced to nothing; obliterated, utterly destroyed. archaic or poetic in later use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > annihilating > completely destroyed or annihilated
quencheda1382
annihilatec1400
extincta1513
unfabricate1630
unbeened1642
non-ented1643
annihilated1647
self-annihilated1677
annihiled1691
defaced1776
exterminated1813
dis-created1879
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 484 Þat was brede bifore þo consecracione, is turned into nouȝt, þat þai clepen adnichilat, or brouȝt to nouȝt.
?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. e.iiiv If the worlde were adnichilate and turned to nought a gayn.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ii. 65 The sollace of life, is by such a restraint opprest, and by degrees adnichilate.
1795 R. Southey Joan of Arc I. 531 All sense of self annihilate, I seem'd Diffused into the scene.
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 450 How Shall flesh and spirit thus together be,..yet flesh not be annihilate, As water dropp'd on fire?
1890 S. Lane-Poole Barbary Corsairs i. iv. 50 A violent tempest drove their ships ashore, insomuch that this mighty expedition was all but annihilate.
2. Rendered null and void; revoked, annulled.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > annulled, cancelled, revoked
derogate1430
revocate?1440
revoked1461
abrogatea1464
annihilate?a1475
cassate1519
cancelled1539
dissolved?1541
abolished1546
dissoluted1606
aniente1636
retracted1676
red-lined1966
?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 500 (MED) That commission grawnted was revocate and annichilhate in that parliamente.
1544 Act 35 Henry VIII c. 1 §7 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 957 I repute the same [Othe] as vayne & adnihilate.
1642 R. Burney Answer Observ. 13 His sacred Maiestie that intrusted hath deposited the Votes Anihilate of all his people.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

annihilatev.

Brit. /əˈnʌɪəleɪt/, U.S. /əˈnaɪəˌleɪt/
Forms: 1500s adnihillate, 1500s adnychilate, 1500s annichillate, 1500s annychilate, 1500s–1600s adnichilate, 1500s–1600s adnihilate, 1500s–1600s annichilate, 1500s– annihilate, 1600s anihilate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin annihilat-, adnihilat-, annihilare, adnihilare.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin annihilat-, adnihilat-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of annihilare, adnihilare to reduce to nothing, destroy (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), to annul (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), to invalidate (13th cent.), to make light of (15th cent. in a British glossarial source) < classical Latin ad- ad- prefix + nihil nihil n. Compare earlier annihil v., and also earlier annihilate adj.Compare Middle French, French annihiler and variants (see annihil v.), Old Occitan anichiler (?1350), Catalan anihilar (15th cent.), Spanish anihilar (early 15th cent. as †anichilar), Portuguese aniilar (1589 as †anihilar), Italian annichilare (a1306).
1. transitive. To annul, revoke, or abolish (a law, treaty, right, etc.); to render null and void or of no effect; to invalidate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid
wanea889
voida1340
avoidc1375
abolishc1475
disnull1509
disannula1513
annihilate1525
evacuate1526
aniente1528
extinct1530
disable1548
extinguish1548
solute1550
destitutea1563
exinanitea1575
cashier1596
devoid1601
shorta1616
supersede1618
vitiate1627
invalidate1649
out1653
vacate1662
exinanitiate1698
atheticize1701
squasha1777
invalid1827
negate1837
negative1837
unsanction1854
cancel-
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cliii. 421 That shulde breke or adnychilate..the alyances that hath been sworne.
1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica Addr. Royal Soc. sig. a To annihilate all such arguments.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xv. 102 These..rights..you can no more annihilate, than you can the soil to which they are annexed.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. viii. 325 Annihilate law, and moral order is no more.
1906 Spectator 27 Sept. 149/2 The fire protection existing when the insurance was written was practically annihilated by the earthquake.
2006 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 5 Sept. Tax protesters on the far right..are constantly trying to narrow or annihilate the 16th Amendment.
2. transitive. To treat (something) as non-existent; to consider or render worthless or insignificant. Now rare (archaic and poetic in later use).
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (transitive)] > treat as non-existent
annihilate1542
1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier xlvi. sig. R.ij Howe were the singulare merites of Christes death..adnihilated & set at nought.
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 21 The effect and affection of men..Pharisaïcally ἐξουθενεῖν to annihilate all others.
1748 H. Walpole Three Lett. to Whigs iii. 71 Was not every Art used to depreciate, to annihilate this Victory!
a1843 R. Southey Amatory Poems Sonn. iii, in Poet. Wks. (1853) III. 119 For Love annihilates the world to me!
a1916 J. Todhunter tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (1924) i. xiv. 127 He lowers me in mine own eyes, with a word's breath Annihilates the gifts thou gavest me.
1996 S. Barker Hand in Well ii. 22 Why do you annihilate existence?
3.
a. transitive. To reduce (a person or thing) to nothing. Later chiefly: to wipe (a person, ethnic or religious group, organism, etc.) out of existence; to destroy completely, to obliterate, exterminate, eradicate, etc. Also used without necessarily implying utter destruction or obliteration: to eliminate almost entirely, to all but eradicate.In quot. 1567 with reference to the reduction in the Eucharist of the substance of the bread and wine to nothing (see transubstantiation n. 2). Cf. annihilation n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence
dilghec897
defacec1386
annul1395
anientec1400
refer?c1400
extinct1484
annihil1490
delete1495
out-terma1500
perspoil1523
extaintc1540
extinguish1555
blot1561
wipe1564
to cut the throat of1565
annihilate1567
dissipatea1575
annihilate1586
nullify1609
nullize1615
expunge1628
nothing1637
null1647
extramund1654
be-nothing1674
erase1728
obliterate1798
simoom1821
to tear to shreds1837
snuff1852
mop1859
to take out1900
napoo1915
naught1958
1567 J. Rastell Briefe Shew False Wares iv. f. 45 It [sc. bread] keepeth stil a being (because it is not annihilated, and vtterly made nothing).
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 112/2 Till the wormes be totally annihilatede or consumede.
1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 151 The vestiges of the Roman camp..are almost annihilated.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. ix. 182 If all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.
1866 J. Gamgee Cattle Plague i. 141 The only sure and certain way to annihilate this virus is to destroy the animals which by their sickness indicate its presence.
1955 Bull. Atomic Sci. Mar. 85/3 A war fought with the nuclear weapons would annihilate whole countries.
1990 Garden Answers Nov. 57/2 Pigeons and jays can cause a lot of damage and are especially fond of brassicas and peas, while sparrows will annihilate seedlings.
2013 Eng. Educ. 45 294 Mein Kampf is marshaled by some historians as evidence suggesting that Hitler's intention to systematically annihilate the Jews coalesced relatively early on.
b. transitive. To destroy (an immaterial thing); to put an end to, do away with, extinguish.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence
dilghec897
defacec1386
annul1395
anientec1400
refer?c1400
extinct1484
annihil1490
delete1495
out-terma1500
perspoil1523
extaintc1540
extinguish1555
blot1561
wipe1564
to cut the throat of1565
annihilate1567
dissipatea1575
annihilate1586
nullify1609
nullize1615
expunge1628
nothing1637
null1647
extramund1654
be-nothing1674
erase1728
obliterate1798
simoom1821
to tear to shreds1837
snuff1852
mop1859
to take out1900
napoo1915
naught1958
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 175 Idlenes annihilateth and corrupteth the goodnes of nature.
1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Ded. 1 Who make profession in word..but in deed and effect do annihilate..the power and efficacie thereof.
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 52 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Ye Gods! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two Lovers happy.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 473 That event has totally annihilated all order and discipline.
1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose ii. viii. 81 So much of the past is annihilated and swept away.
1992 Unesco Courier Mar. 10/1 The rise of modern patriarchy tended to kill the feminine principle in all its fullness, and in particular to annihilate it totally in man.
c. transitive. Theology. Chiefly of God: to destroy (a person's soul) after death; to end the existence of (a person) completely, body and soul.Frequently with reference to unrepentant sinners: see annihilation n. 2b.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [verb (transitive)] > destroy
spillc1290
annihilate1640
1640 W. Habington Castara (ed. 3) iii. 173 Death..not annihilates, but uncloudes the soule.
1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity vii. 94 If God can eternally annihilate even an innocent Being, he may do more eternally to the Guilty.
1879 Phrenolog. Jrnl. Dec. 327/2 If the soul is immortal it can not die, even if it sins, unless God annihilates it.
1902 Union Seminary Mag. Apr. 264 His soul died, but was not annihilated.
1983 M. Gardner Whys of Philos. Scrivener (1999) xix. 308 Even the Schoolmen, who believed the soul to be intrinsically immortal, took for granted that God could annihilate a soul if he liked.
2006 P. N. Benware Understanding End Times Prophecy (rev. ed.) xviii. Several theologians within the evangelical church..proclaim that God will annihilate the wicked since He is too loving and kind to inflict everlasting misery on His creatures.
4.
a. transitive. To put an end to the authority or control of (a person, dynasty, political regime, etc.); to reduce to powerlessness; to ruin.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xii. 362 Such a power as this, of deposing and annihilating Kings, bee necessarie, and certaine in the Church.
1628 T. Roe tr. P. Sarpi Disc. Reasons of Resol. against Grisons & Heretiques 63 To ruine, destroy, and annihilate the Roman faction, in their Countrey.
1795 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XLII. 472 An intention of the First Lord of the Treasury to degrade and annihilate the whig party.
1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII Prooimion 6 Royalty, aristocracy, government, bureaucracy, all annihilated, and Anarchy in excelsis.
1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 iv. 128 The independent Liberals were annihilated. Every one of their former ministers lost his seat.
2020 S. Rushdie in Irish Independent (Nexis) 5 June 12 The ‘emergency’, as it became known, ended only when she called an election, believing she would win, and was annihilated at the polls.
b. transitive. To destroy the collective strength, coherence, or effectiveness of (a body or unified entity), such as to bring about total or effective incapacitation or elimination; to conquer or crush (a military opponent); esp. to put (an army) to rout.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated in [verb (transitive)] > defeat or overthrow (a person or thing)
prostrate1531
downthrow1563
annihilate1757
slosh1921
1757 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 525/2 Having not only defeated, but in a manner annihilated, an army of 60,000 men.
a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. i. 239 At length, after various plunges and various escapes, it [sc. the Eastern empire] was totally annihilated in the fifteenth century.
1808 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 115 We only wanted a few hundred more cavalry to annihilate the French army.
1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine iii. 50 Near the mouth of the Nile Nelson annihilated the fleet of Napoleon.
1946 T. G. Chase Story of Lithuania i. 3 The Old Prussians..were annihilated by the Teutonic Knights.
2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 3 Dec. a21/5 Encircling and then annihilating a French army between two German pincers.
c. transitive. To put down or humiliate (a person).
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1881 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. in Notes & Queries (1882) 28 Jan. 65/1 ‘He cussed that fellow out’, i.e., he annihilated him verbally.
1967 Life 13 Oct. 63/4 She hits precisely the right light tone in annihilating a stuffed shirt.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Oct. c1/1 Catfighting in the fashion world doesn't always have to bow to cliché. People are apparently capable of annihilating each other in novel ways.
d. transitive. Sport. To defeat (an opponent) resoundingly or decisively.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > defeat
overplayc1460
smother1676
lurch1678
outplay1702
thrash1789
defeat1830
spreadeagle1832
thresh1852
whitewash1867
blank1870
annihilate1886
nip1893
slam1907
plaster1919
skittle1919
rip1927
maul1928
demolish1938
massacre1940
trounce1942
hammer1948
murder1952
to shut out1952
zilch1957
zip1964
trip1974
1886 Northern Daily Mail 19 Nov. 3/5 At the same time Lancashire were busy annihilating Cheshire by 3 goals and 3 tries.
1903 Manch. Courier 1 July 9/7 To our mind the game [sc. tennis] requires shortening without making it more easy for a good man to annihilate a medium player.
1996 Daily Record (Nexis) 10 Jan. 46 (headline) Berwick annihilated 16-0 by Dundee United.
2012 B. McGinn Ultimate Super Bowl Bk. (ed. 2) 152/1 Needing an overwhelming triumph in the Super Bowl to validate their greatness, they punched it up a notch and annihilated the New England Patriots, 46-10, at the Louisiana Superdrome.
5. intransitive. To vanish completely; to dwindle to nothing. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist
tirec725
endOE
forfareOE
goc1175
fleec1200
to wend awayc1225
diea1240
to-melta1240
to pass awaya1325
flit1340
perishc1350
vanisha1375
decorre1377
cease1382
dispend1393
failc1400
overshakec1425
surcease1439
adrawc1450
fall1523
decease1538
define1562
fleet1576
expire1595
evanish1597
extinguish1599
extirp1606
disappear1623
evaporatea1631
trans-shift1648
annihilate1656
exolve1657
cancela1667
to pass off1699
to burn out, forth1832
spark1845
to die out1853
to come, go, etc. by the board1859
sputter1964
1656 J. Evelyn Ess. 1st Bk. Lucretius 125 If there be any thing in the world which seems totally to perish and annihilate, it is a shower of rain.
1787 T. Jefferson Let. 1 Aug. in Papers (1955) XI. 656 Their calling is in fact annihilating.
1788 J. Wesley Serm. Several Occasions V. 17 This ocean is annihilating, at the rate of one drop in a thousand years.
6. transitive. To consume (a quantity of food or drink) in its entirety, esp. in a voracious manner.In quot. 1815 as part of an extended metaphor; cf. sense 4b.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
1815 R. Rylance Epicure's Almanack 148 Whole corps of beef, mutton, lamb, veal, pork, as well as many light divisions of pies, puddings, peas, sallads, vale-royal Cheshire cheese, Gloster, single and double, are cut to pieces, and, as the French used to say, annihilated.
1957 F. Kohner Gidget 127 They had already annihilated kegs of beer and started to get fractured on Gallic wine.
2013 @_tawme 26 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 23 May 2019) I'm so hungry I think I could annihilate the 20 pound turkey in the fridge by myself.
7. Particle Physics.
a. transitive. To convert (matter) into energy; spec. to cause (a subatomic particle) to combine with its equivalent antiparticle so that the mass of both is transformed into energy. Frequently in passive. Cf. annihilation n. 5.Typically, when a particle and an antiparticle are annihilated (for example at high energy in a particle accelerator), the energy produced almost instantaneously transforms into new particles. These particles are usually different from those in the original interaction.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [verb (transitive)] > convert into energy
annihilate1916
1916 A. C. Ridsdale in Jrnl. Astron. Soc. India 7 Nos. 1–3. 21 The doctrine of the ‘conservation of energy’ is overthrown if positive and negative electrons can annihilate one another.
1977 S. Weinberg First Three Minutes iv. 80 Nuclear reactions, in which a fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated.
2015 @perthobs 24 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Jan. 2019) The positron emitted by the beta-decay is almost immediately annihilated with an electron.
b. intransitive. Of a subatomic particle: to undergo annihilation; to combine with its equivalent antiparticle so that the mass of both is transformed into energy (and thereafter into other forms of matter). Cf. annihilation n. 5.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [verb (intransitive)] > undergo annihilation
annihilate1939
1939 Proc. Physico-Math. Soc. Japan 21 389 Most of positrons penetrate through the cellophane foil and reach the walls of the source room where they annihilate.
1979 Nature 29 Mar. 406/1 It is assumed that in the collision an anti-quark of the (qq) sea in one hadron annihilates with a quark in the other hadron resulting in the creation of a lepton pair.
2018 @kerr_laserpope 14 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Jan. 2019) Quarks and antiquarks annihilate and create pions, which are either neutral or charged.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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