Definition of "annihilation" []

• The act or process of annihilating. (noun)
• The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction. (noun)
• Physics The phenomenon in which a particle and an antiparticle, such as an electron and a positron, meet and are converted completely to energy approximately equivalent to the sum of their masses. (noun)

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• "I flicked through some of my stories to see what I did to my characters and the annihilation is there."
• "Hutchings points out, such "annihilation" is not synonymous with the human subject's complete loss of identity due to its absorption into nature as an"
• "Glad to see your program of systemic annihilation is already in effect."