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To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.

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  1. v. t. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
  2. v. t. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees.
  3. v. t. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
  4. a. Annihilated.
  5. v. kill in large numbers
  6. v:100 v kill in large numbers