Adjective: annihilated u'nI-u,ley-tid
- Destroyed completely
"The Chinese market has been completely and totally annihilated";
- exterminated, wiped out
- Destroy completely, leaving no trace
"The bomb annihilated the building";
- obliterate
- [informal] Defeat soundly and humiliatingly
"The home team annihilated the visitors";
- demolish [informal], destroy, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], pulverize [Brit, informal], pulverise [Brit, informal]
- (physics) undergo mutual destruction by combination of a particle and antiparticle
"Matter and antimatter annihilate on contact"
- (mathematics) reduce to zero
"This operation annihilates the determinant"
See also: destroyed
Type of: defeat, do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of, get the better of, overcome
Encyclopedia: Annihilated
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