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annihilation
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. destruction by annihilating something [syn: obliteration ] total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll" [syn: disintegration ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer . It is the first in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy . The book describes a team of four (a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor) who set out into an area ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Annihilation \An*ni`hi*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. annihilation.] The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or 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; as, the annihilation ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or 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; as, the annihilation of a corporation. 2 The state of being annihilated. ...
Usage examples of annihilation.
Foreigners came from all over the world to buy them and I could have been the cause of their annihilation.
Upon the hypothesis that annihilation is the fate of man, they are not satisfied merely to take away from the present all the additional light, incentive, and comfort imparted by the faith in a future existence, but they arbitrarily remove all the alleviations and glories intrinsically belonging to the scene, and paint it in the most horrible hues, and set it in a frame of midnight.
I often said to myself, what are all the boasted advantages which my country reaps from the union, that can counterbalance the annihilation of her independence, and even her very name!
It is much more important, you see, than measuring nutrient levels and concocting chemical formulae for the annihilation of borer beetles.
In its figures it comprehends the created and uncreated, the commencement and the end, power and force, life and annihilation.
As early as nine a heliogram had been sent to them to retire as the opportunity served, but to leave the hill was certainly to court annihilation.
In others, one must learn to fuse knowledge with nescience, sound with silence, self with annihilation, life with death, the universe with the quark.
The thing that most Relativists fear the most is burnout: utter annihilation of personality.
Unknown Potency, at the same time forbidding him to make use of it, or any other sigil, on pain of instant annihilation.
All hail to our chosen leaders who kept watch and ward over a dreaming people, and did not allow themselves to be lulled into watchlessness by the lies of our enemies, who while talking of peace intrigued for our annihilation.
An analytic logic of identity and difference presents the only relationship between the two series as mutual avoidance or, upon contact and the impairment of purity, mutual annihilation.
His unspeakable act had branded him for destruction, and Margarite was determined to be the agent of that annihilation.
Out of lead and tin, he fashioned hollow images of nude men, filled them with earth collected from the center and four corners of France, inscribed the foreheads with the names of King Edward or one of his captains, and, when the constellations were right, buried them face down while he recited spells to the effect that this was perpetual expulsion, annihilation, and burial of the said King, captains, and all adherents.
To any dependent intelligence blessed with our human susceptibilities, reverential love and submission are as obligatory, natural, and becoming on the brink of annihilation as on the verge of immortality.
In retrospect, the sterilization program served as an early paradigm for techniques of annihilation and the public policy of sanitizing the culture against biological and genetic threat.