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annihilatory

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

歼灭性,歼灭性的,湮灭性,湮灭性的

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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.

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Examples

  • The other portion would be to annihilate hunger shortly before going to sleep.

  • The team knew that matter and antimatter annihilate each other when they meet.

  • These antistar candidates seem to give off the kind of gamma rays that are produced when antimatter — matter’s oppositely charged counterpart — meets normal matter and annihilates.

  • A woman with the self-possession to identify what she wants — and the nerve to go after it — was seemingly most easily understood as a function of derangement, annihilating narcissism or both.

  • She might be watching from 565 miles away, but she’s got a Sweet 16 to follow with hope, a son annihilating expectations and a No.

  • The J in its name actually stands for Jian—annihilate, eliminate.

  • “Thirty minutes alone with a man is enough for him to annihilate you,” she remarks, knowingly.

  • Finally there was the atomic bomb (and the Cold War it created): machine threatened to annihilate all of mankind.

  • He then went on to compare us to Amalek, the Biblical nation that God commands the Jews to annihilate.

  • The consequences of the repeated failed attempts to annihilate Israel should and will be reflected in the final status.

  • To pretend that God can be offended with the actions of men, is to annihilate all the ideas that are given to us of this being.

  • They are the spontaneous enemies of truth because they justly apprehend it will annihilate their pretensions.

  • Does crossing the sea change or annihilate the churchmanship of the missionary, or the passenger, or the emigrant?

  • It compelled the foe to abandon Heilsberg, but it did not annihilate him or necessarily end the war.

  • The army he had hoped to annihilate was on its steady and orderly march for Richmond.