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annihiler — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
  • extirpate verb To clear an area of roots and stumps.
  • obliterate verb To destroy something completely, leaving no trace.

Senses

annihiler is used for these senses in English:

  • annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
  • extirpate (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate,
  • obliterate To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.

annihilate — full definition

  1. verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
  2. verb Physics: for a particle and its antiparticle to collide and convert entirely into energy.

extirpate — full definition

  1. verb To clear an area of roots and stumps.
  2. verb To pull up by the roots; uproot.
  3. verb To destroy completely; to annihilate.
  4. verb To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.

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