(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".
Ravage
Definition:
(n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.
(n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Example Sentences:
(1) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(2) They were ravaged by injuries at that point, although Park and Rafael in the centre was weird.
(3) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(4) That, officials claim, would allow further discussions on debt relief seen as crucial if the recession-ravaged Greek economy is ever to recover.
(5) The disease will keep ravaging the population (and slowly overwhelm the health service) until these circumstances change.
(6) Ignoring the tragedies of Matthew’s life prior to his murder will do nothing to help other young men in our community who are sold for sex, ravaged by drugs, and generally exploited.
(7) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
(8) His voice, already weak from the ravages of Parkinson’s Syndrome, was flagging.
(9) Art galleries are scarce in the ravaged cities, but there are blank walls and pavements in abundance.
(10) Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the "loss and damage" incurred.
(11) Depicting the situation in Gaza in grim language the report states: “Three Israeli military operations in the past six years, in addition to eight years of economic blockade, have ravaged the already debilitated infrastructure of Gaza, shattered its productive base, left no time for meaningful reconstruction or economic recovery and impoverished the Palestinian population in Gaza , rendering their economic wellbeing worse than the level of two decades previous.
(12) In addition, the ravages of disease and the seasonal variations of food supply need to be overcome in tropical areas.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He commands the screen even when silent, his pain flitting across that gaunt, ravaged face … Sean Bean in Broken.
(14) Political manoeuvering aside, the 54-year-old will come under immediate pressure to revive the economy, rein in the strong yen and oversee the reconstruction of the tsunami-ravaged north-east coast and the operation to stabilise Fukushima Daiichi.
(15) He added: "This [flexible screen] is Samsung's silver bullet against the ravages on commoditisation in Android, but fortunately Samsung does not need it to work right away.
(16) It said Syria’s “exceptional archaeological and historical heritage” had not escaped the ravages of a conflict that has killed almost 93,000 and prompted 1.6 million refugees to flee the country.
(17) The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories.
(18) Instead, in his view, there was only broad agreement on the need for a fund to protect poor countries from the worst ravages of climate change, a plan to help developing countries adopt new clean energy technology, and another programme — with funding from the industrialised world — to reduce deforestation in the developing world. "
(19) Nor is there any inherent contradiction in an environmentalist being in favour of nuclear power – George Monbiot , Mark Lynas and James Lovelock have written eloquently on the importance of nuclear power in mitigating the ravages of climate change.
(20) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.