Annihilation

Quick meaning: Annihilation is a noun meaning The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.

Meaning

The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.

More Meanings

1. 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.
2. The state of being annihilated.
3. (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Example Sentences

the annihilation of a corporation

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.

Word Forms

• annihilations

Synonyms for annihilation

Depending on context, synonyms include extinction, eradication, obliteration, disintegration.

Antonyms for annihilation

Common opposites include creation, generation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obliteration, disintegration, extinction, extermination, death, elimination.

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