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Annihilation

//əˌnaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    destruction by annihilating something wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it. countable, uncountable

    "the annihilation of a corporation"

  4. 4
    total destruction wordnet
  5. 5
    The state of being annihilated. countable, uncountable

    "If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type."

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  1. 6
    The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle French annihilation, from Latin annihilātiō. By surface analysis, annihilate + -ion.

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