réduire à néant — meaning in English
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English meaning
- annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- debunk verb To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something; to refute.
- defeat verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
Senses
réduire à néant is used for these senses in English:
- annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- debunk (transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.
- defeat (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength 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.