vernichten — 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.
- blight noun A plant disease, often caused by fungus, that causes rapid browning and death of leaves or stems.
- destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
- devour verb To eat something quickly and hungrily.
- eradicate verb To destroy or get rid of something completely, especially a disease or problem.
- nix noun Nothing, zero.
- quash verb To officially cancel or reject a legal decision, charge, or order.
- ruin verb To destroy, spoil, or severely damage something so it no longer works or pleases.
- thrash verb To beat someone severely, or to defeat an opponent decisively.
Senses
vernichten 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.
- blight (figurative) To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.
- 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.
- devour (transitive, idiomatic) To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
- eradicate (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
- nix To destroy or eradicate.
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.