annihilation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   total destruction

   Bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

   The annihilation of a corporation.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being annihilated.

   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. 4
   noun

   destruction by annihilating something

From Middle French annihilation, from Latin annihilātiō. By surface analysis, annihilate + -ion.

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