Nuclear weapons may bring about the annihilation of man.
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Annihilation
//əˌnaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "annihilation" (94 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (47)
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95 translations across 36 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- إِفْنَاء noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- إِفْنَاء noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- تَدْمِير noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Armenian
1 entries- ոչնչացում noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Belarusian
1 entries- знішчэ́нне noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Bengali
1 entries- ফানা noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Bulgarian
3 entries- анихилация noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- изтре́бване noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- унищоже́ние noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Catalan
2 entries- anihilació noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- anihilació noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
Central Kurdish
3 entries- فەوتاندن noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- لەناوبردن noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- لەناوبردن noun (state of being annihilated)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 毀滅 /毁灭 noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- 毁灭 noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- 湮滅 /湮灭 noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- 湮灭 noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
Czech
2 entries- anihilace noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- zničení noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Dutch
1 entries- vernietiging noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Finnish
4 entries- annihilaatio noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- hävittäminen noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- tuhoaminen noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- tuhoutuminen noun (state of being annihilated)
French
1 entries- annihilation noun (act of reducing to nothing)
German
3 entries- Annihilation noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- Vernichtung noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- Zerstörung noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Hebrew
2 entries- הַשְׁמָדָה noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- חיסול noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Hindi
3 entries- उन्मूलन noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- विलोपन noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- सर्वनाश noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Ido
2 entries- nihiligo noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- nihiligo noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
Italian
4 entries- annichilazione noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- annichilazione noun (state of being annihilated)
- annichilazione noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- annichilimento noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Japanese
4 entries- 全滅 noun (state of being annihilated)
- 根絶 noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- 殲滅 noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- 絶滅 noun (state of being annihilated)
Korean
1 entries- 전멸 noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Latin
1 entries- annihilatio noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Macedonian
1 entries- уништување noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Malay
1 entries- pemusnahhabisan noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
Māori
3 entries- korehāhā noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- korehāhā noun (state of being annihilated)
- whakamōtītanga noun (state of being annihilated)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- افنا noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Persian
1 entries- نابودی noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Polish
4 entries- anihilacja noun (state of being annihilated)
- anihilacja noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- niszczenie noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- zniszczenie noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Portuguese
3 entries- aniquilação noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- aniquilação noun (state of being annihilated)
- aniquilação noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
Romanian
3 entries- anihilare noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- anihilare noun (state of being annihilated)
- anihilare noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
Russian
4 entries- аннигиля́ция noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- истребле́ние noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- разруше́ние noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- уничтоже́ние noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- anihilácija noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
- uništénje noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- uništénje noun (state of being annihilated)
- анихила́ција noun ((physics) process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy)
Slovak
1 entries- zničenie noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Slovene
1 entries- uničenje noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Spanish
4 entries- anihilación noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- anihilación noun (state of being annihilated)
- anihilamiento noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- anihilamiento noun (state of being annihilated)
Swedish
3 entries- förintelse noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- utplånande noun (act of reducing to nothing)
- utplåning noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Ukrainian
1 entries- зни́щення noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרטיליקונג noun (act of reducing to nothing)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from this place to another.
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Annihilation gives birth to my rebirth.
Source: tatoeba (1144191)
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annihilation of his being.
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