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annihilating

/uh-nahy-uh-leyt/US // əˈnaɪ əˌleɪt //UK // (əˈnaɪəˌleɪt) //

歼灭性的,歼灭性,歼灭,剿灭性的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    an·ni·hi·lat·ed, an·ni·hi·lat·ing.

    • : to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly: The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city.
    • : to destroy the collective existence or main body of; wipe out: to annihilate an army.
    • : to annul; make void: to annihilate a law.
    • : to cancel the effect of; nullify.
    • : to defeat completely; vanquish: Our basketball team annihilated the visiting team.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdestroy completely
Forms: annihilated

Examples

  • Goku and Vegeta are members of a race called Saiyan, which villains discriminated against, and later nearly annihilated, because they feared its members’ potential as fighters.

  • If the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope can take the temperature of a few thousand exoplanets, Leane and a colleague calculated, that data set could bear the fingerprints of annihilating dark particles in the electron-to-proton mass range.

  • Soviet forces had deftly enveloped the German 4th and 9th Armies, annihilating some 28 divisions.

  • Their biggest threat is the Builders, an ancient race of aliens hell-bent on annihilating the human race.

  • “Missions” essentially consist of annihilating all means of transportation in small, vaguely Middle Eastern/African cities.

  • In less than sixty seconds he would become the focus of a hidden and annihilating fire from a semicircle of houses.

  • When the gamma rays enter the sleeve, they interact with that photon gas, annihilating into electron-positron pairs.

  • To do this with taste, and without corrupting or annihilating the meaning of the word, demands a certain amount of literary skill.

  • In one grand point he, however, succeeded, that of annihilating or dispersing the British legion.

  • He therefore removed the sons out of his way, with a view of annihilating the hopes of the disaffected.

  • It darted about, annihilating the small distances of the Solent and making a strange, buzzing noise like some foul fly.

  • He has attained to annihilating himself, his hateful ego; but I too; it's not from egoism, I pray not.