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单词 annihilatory
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annihilatoryadj.

Brit. /əˌnʌɪəˈleɪtəri/, U.S. /əˈnaɪələˌtɔri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: annihilate v., -ory suffix2.
Etymology: < annihilate v. + -ory suffix2. Compare earlier annihilating adj. and later annihilative adj.
1. Capable of being invalidated, or rendered null and void. Cf. annihilate v. 1. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > rendered void
irrite1482
frustrate1497
void1526
irritate1600
null and void1651
annihilatory1676
non inventus1678
invalid1768
non avenu1787
non est1858
negated1876
1676 G. Duke Herne's Law Charitable Uses (rev. ed.) v. 48 The Decree was grounded upon the imaginations of Jurors.., so no Will till after his death, and if any, annihilatory and revokeable, in articulo mortis, and of no effect.
2. Utterly devastating or destructive, crushing; annihilative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]
fellc1330
undone1340
ruinous?a1439
violablea1470
perniciousc1475
destructive1490
confusible1502
destroying1535
exitiable1548
ruinate1562
peremptory1567
wrackful1578
slaughterous1582
ruinating1595
ruining1605
corrumpent1607
wracksome1608
in suds1611
destructory1614
poisonousa1616
wrakefulc1625
predatory1626
predatorious1641
demolishing1648
untwined1649
undoing1654
destructionable1656
destructful1659
mortal1670
wreckinga1677
fatal1692
quadrumanous1704
interdestructive1805
annihilatory1825
demolitionary1834
ruinatious1845
consumptive1860
thunderous1874
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > overcoming or overwhelming > completely
crushing1577
confounding1595
prostrative1817
annihilatory1825
spiflicating1852
dishing1895
knock-out1938
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 225 You..have attacked the lower orders in a still more direct, and perhaps even a still more annihilatory style than the above.
1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) vii. 257 The annihilatory zeal my address had attempted to instill.
2010 Mānoa 22 116 I want to narrate two fragmentary stories as examples of annihilatory thinking about languages and identities from two modern partitions.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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