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aniquilar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
  • exterminate verb To destroy or kill off completely, especially a group of pests or people.
  • nuke noun A nuclear weapon.
  • obliterate verb To destroy something completely, leaving no trace.
  • raze verb To tear a building, town, or structure down completely, leaving nothing standing.

Senses

aniquilar is used for these senses in English:

  • annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
  • annihilate (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
  • exterminate (figuratively, transitive) To bring a definite end to; to finish completely.
  • 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.
  • raze To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
  • wipe out (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.

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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