Definition of "annihilate" []

• To destroy completely: The naval force was annihilated during the attack. (verb-transitive)
• To reduce to nonexistence. (verb-transitive)
• To defeat decisively; vanquish. (verb-transitive)
• To nullify or render void; abolish. (verb-transitive)
• Physics To participate in annihilation, as an electron and a positron do. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I remember a “leader” many years ago wanted to annihilate from the world the feeble minded and the infirm along with the other undesirables."
• "The word annihilate seems to me to hold a destructive sense to it too so I was beginning to think that Cory had given me a word that I didn't like very much."
• "Hear God speak and may his word annihilate every thought to the contrary: "The Lord thy"