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уничто́жить — meaning in English

unichtozhit

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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.
  • destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
  • eliminate verb To completely remove or get rid of something.
  • eradicate verb To destroy or get rid of something completely, especially a disease or problem.
  • exterminate verb To destroy or kill off completely, especially a group of pests or people.
  • extinguish verb To put out a fire or light.
  • obliterate verb To destroy something completely, leaving no trace.
  • ruin verb To destroy, spoil, or severely damage something so it no longer works or pleases.

Senses

уничто́жить 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.
  • destroy (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
  • eliminate (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
  • eradicate (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
  • exterminate (figuratively, transitive) To bring a definite end to; to finish completely.
  • extinguish (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
  • 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.

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