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annihilation
[ uh-nahy-uh-ley-shuhn ]
noun
- an act or instance of annihilating, or of completely destroying or defeating someone or something:
the brutal annihilation of millions of people.
- the state of being annihilated; total destruction; extinction:
fear of nuclear annihilation.
- Physics.
- Also called pair annihilation. the process in which a particle and antiparticle unite, annihilate each other, and produce one or more photons. Compare positronium.
- the conversion of rest mass into energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of annihilation1
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Example Sentences
Nazi texts proclaimed that the annihilation or expulsion of the Armenians was a “compelling necessity.”
It was three or four years of annihilation, and by the end my stomach was in bits.
The consequences of a drug conviction amount to the annihilation of citizenship.
Winters uses that cataclysmic event to examine the slow deterioration of communal life in the face of annihilation.
So she has to be perfect and self-sacrificing to the point of self-annihilation.
The object of these scarli is to manifest the popular exultation at the annihilation of feudal tyranny.
To his excited imagination, we time and again escaped complete wreck and annihilation by a mere hair's breadth.
Its history was no doubt as stirring as that of others of the border castles, which more fortunately escaped annihilation.
Annihilation of ones own identity in the moment is possible in natures domainnever in mans.
To wish to separate technique from poetry is a modern folly which will lead to nothing but the annihilation of Art itself.
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