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 An·ni·hi·late v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annihilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annihilating.]
 1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
    It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.   --Bacon.
 2. 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. “To annihilate the army.”
 3. 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.

 annihilating
      adj 1: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;
             "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating
             hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative,
              devastating, withering]
      2: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a
         devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments
         inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: devastating,
          withering]