 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
annihilated
adjective: destroyed completely [syn: {exterminated}, {wiped out(p)}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
annihilated \annihilated\ adjective
1. 1 destroyed completely.
Syn: exterminated, wiped out(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Annihilate \An*ni"hi*late\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Annihilated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Annihilating}.] [L. annihilare; ad +
nihilum, nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread,
nothing at all. Cf. {File}, a row.]
1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the
existence of; to cause to cease to be.
It impossible for any body to be utterly
annihilated. --Bacon.
2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of,
so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to
annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. ''To
annihilate the army.'' --Macaulay.
3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a
thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc.,
of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
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