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Adjective: annihilated  u'nI-u,ley-tid
  1. Destroyed completely
    "The Chinese market has been completely and totally annihilated";
    - exterminated, wiped out
Verb: annihilate  u'nI-u,leyt
  1. Destroy completely, leaving no trace
    "The bomb annihilated the building";
    - obliterate
     
  2. [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]
     
  3. (physics) undergo mutual destruction by combination of a particle and antiparticle
    "Matter and antimatter annihilate on contact"
     
  4. (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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