(v. t.) To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
(v. t.) To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees.
(v. t.) To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
(a.) Annihilated.
Example Sentences:
(1) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
(2) Worst building Facebook Twitter Pinterest Where Merkel bosses other European leaders around ... a whole street was annihilated for the Justus Lipsius building, home of the Council of the European Union This is where Angela Merkel bosses other European leaders around: the Justus Lipsius building, home of the Council of the European Union.
(3) The event when one annihilation photon escapes from the detector without interaction while the other escapes after one Compton scattering interaction produces a characteristic component in the pulse-height spectrum.
(4) These correspond to the ordering processes by the migration and the annihilation of quenched-in excess vacancies, the annihilation of secondary defects and the diffusion of equilibrium vacancies, respectively.
(5) Other phenomena expected of an excitable medium, such as wave propagation of undiminished amplitude and annihilation of colliding wavefronts, were observed.
(6) The relationship between the fluorescence yield and the number of hits per domain depends on two parameters: the rate constant of bimolecular exciton annihilation and the dimension of the domain in which this annihilation occurs.
(7) Something has happened before J starts, and what that something is I can best describe as an annihilation of a people and an idea.
(8) In Game Four two home runs from Jhonny Peralta and a homer apiece from Triple Crown-winner Cabrera and Austin Jackson led the annihilation.
(9) Application of a depolarizing current pulse of brief duration during a critical region of the spontaneous cycle annihilated activity in some preparations exposed to [TTX] approximately 10(-7) M. These results were analyzed with the model of electrical activity described in the previous paper (Clay, J.R., R.M.
(10) Sulphate reduced adjuvanticity of the SLPs, and the number of sulphate groups required for complete annihilation increased with the chain length of the lipid.
(11) Smaller focal regions of hypoperfusion may be identified by computer emission tomography, either by the detection of single-photon emission or by paired detection of annihilation photons.
(12) In PET, organic molecules labeled with positron-emitting radionuclides are injected or inhaled, and the high-energy photons produced by annihilation events are detected by paired, integrated crystal detectors.
(13) Unhappy with just a share in the state, the Islamists wanted to own it entirely – and now, following three consecutive losses at the ballot box , they are the ones responsible for leading Libya towards annihilation.
(14) Positrons, emitted by 11C attract an electron, and the two masses are annihilated by emitting photons.
(15) Australia is still digesting the scale of Rudd's victory, which saw Howard and his Liberal party coalition annihilated at the polls.
(16) It is assumed that the triplet-triplet annihilation at 77 degrees K is related with the strong interaction between the chlorophyll molecules in the pigment complex of Photosystem I.
(17) He suggested the larger forum offered by the UN was instead important for countries such as Cuba or the small islands which risk annihilation by climate change to air their grievances.
(18) In fact were you to inhabit it, it might feel like you were disappearing, not unlike annihilation.
(19) Phase resetting and annihilation of repetitive firing in the ventricular myocardium were demonstrated by a brief current pulse of the proper magnitude applied at the proper phase.
(20) As Cohn himself pointed out, all his work was fundamentally concerned with the study of the same phenomenon: "the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings imagined as agents of corruption and incarnations of evil".
Nihilism
Definition:
(n.) Nothingness; nihility.
(n.) The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.
(n.) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Quod Nihil Scitur" (That's that nothing we know) is a philosophical open, "adogmatic" and liberal form of scepticism.
(2) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
(3) Therefore the structure of a prenatal diagnostics centre must to a great extent observe the "Nihil nocere".
(4) Low CMAPs should not lead to therapeutic nihilism, because it may simply be caused by demyelination without exonal degeneration in CIDP.
(5) Farewell bleak nihilism; the cold assurances that all is meaningless.
(6) It's hard to see why any party around the world would emulate such nihilism."
(7) Therapeutic nihilism or deliberate acceptance of pseudoarthrotic healing, therefore, cannot be justified in treatment of avulsion fractures of the epicondylus medialis humeri.
(8) Though it may be true that, in the absence of a dependable cause, there is no single cure for inflammatory diseases of the locomotor system, nevertheless there is no reason for therapeutic nihilism.
(9) The psychiatric profession's therapeutic nihilism toward the elderly may reflect unresolved countertransference issues that result in a form of prejudice called "ageism."
(10) On the other hand therapeutic nihilism cannot be recommended.
(11) Even more disturbing, perhaps, is the threat of moral nihilism.
(12) There has been a sense of anomie in the CBC’s broadcasts during these playoffs, and on Wednesday it seemed to have finally morphed into full-blown nihilism.
(13) The overriding principle in surgery should always be "nihil nocere".
(14) Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.
(15) But while the scars of apartheid unquestionably run deep, other voices warn against nihilism.
(16) Anorectal surgery in HIV+ patients historically has been viewed with a great deal of nihilism.
(17) If the political mainstream parties cannot devise a viable response, and quickly, then Britain – like Italy – could find itself overshadowed by the nihilism of an insurgent anti-politics party.
(18) I don’t agree with someone like Russell Brand who advocates not voting – it’s pure nihilism, it’s not going to do any good.
(19) At the same time, the presence of a very low CD4 count alone should not be considered a reason for therapeutic nihilism.
(20) In his essay, however, he began with a confession of his complete ignorance as to the mechanism of secretion: 'Multa in physiologicis obscura sunt, obscurius hac ipsa functione nihil'.