annihilate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they annihilate | |
| he / she / it annihilates | |
| past simple annihilated | |
| past participle annihilated | |
| -ing form annihilating |
- annihilate somebody/something/yourself
to destroy somebody/something/yourself completely 消灭；歼灭；毁灭 - annihilate somebody/something
to defeat somebody/something completely 彻底击败
Word Originlate Middle English (originally as an adjective meaning ‘destroyed, annulled’): from late Latin annihilatus ‘reduced to nothing’, from the verb annihilare, from ad- ‘to’ + nihil ‘nothing’. The sense ‘destroy utterly’ dates from the mid 16th cent.