| 单词 | annihilate |
| 释义 | annihilate (once / 681 pages) v Killing ends when the thing you are killing (your sworn enemy, all hope, a pesky mosquito) is dead. Annihilate goes farther—when you annihilate something, you wipe all trace of it from the earth. You kill a person, but you annihilate a tribe, a town, or even a species. It's nice to think that the human race made it all the way up until the 16th century before annihilate came to mean what it does now. Might this have something to do with the increasing use of gunpowder around this time? WORD FAMILYannihilate: annihilated, annihilates, annihilating, annihilation, annihilative, annihilator+/annihilating: annihilatingly/annihilation: annihilations, self-annihilation/annihilator: annihilators USAGE EXAMPLES"Our prisons were built to annihilate, torture and kill." Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) “We are determined to annihilate terrorism and we are able to shorten its age,” he said, calling on security forces and civilians to remain vigilant. Time(Jan 02, 2017) “It just annihilated one of our guys—ran him right over,” Smith recalled. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) v kill in large numbers Syn|Hyper carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out decimate kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly |
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