anéantir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- defeat verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
- exterminate verb To destroy or kill off completely, especially a group of pests or people.
- murder noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
- nuke noun A nuclear weapon.
- obliterate verb To destroy something completely, leaving no trace.
Senses
anéantir is used for these senses in English:
- annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- defeat (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- hit someone for six (informal, idiomatic) To affect in a devastating way by some unexpected news.
- murder (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
- nuke (transitive, chiefly, US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
- obliterate To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- wipe out (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
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.
defeat — full definition
- verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
- verb To prevent something from succeeding or being achieved.
- noun An instance of losing, or of being overcome.