vernietigen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abolish verb To officially end a law, system, or practice.
- annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
- destruct verb To destroy something deliberately, especially as part of a built-in mechanism.
- extinguish verb To put out a fire or light.
- gut noun The stomach and intestines; someone's digestive system.
- nix noun Nothing, zero.
- nullify verb To make legally invalid.
- quash verb To officially cancel or reject a legal decision, charge, or order.
- scupper noun A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
Senses
vernietigen is used for these senses in English:
- abolish (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]
- annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- break down (transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.
- destroy (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- destroy (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- destruct (transitive, nonstandard) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
- extinguish (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- gut (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
annihilate — full definition
- verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- verb Physics: for a particle and its antiparticle to collide and convert entirely into energy.