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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

  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.

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