annihilation
pronunciation
How to pronounce annihilation in British English:
UK [əˌnaɪə'leɪʃn]
How to pronounce annihilation in American English:
US [əˌnaɪəˈleʃən]
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- Noun:
- destruction by annihilating something
- total destruction
Word Origin
- annihilation (n.)
- 1630s, from Middle French annihilation (restored from Old French anichilacion, 14c.), or directly from Late Latin annihilationem (nominative annihilatio), noun of action from past participle stem of annihilare (see annihilate).
Example
- 1. Say what you will about the looming risk of total nuclear annihilation , it kept the olympics interesting .
- 2. This concept is not , as in the cold war , an arcane reckoning of missile warheads and of future nuclear annihilation .
- 3. The totalist environment - even when it does not resort to physical abuse - thus stimulates in everyone a fear of extinction or annihilation .
- 4. It will merely ensure that the free world , beginning with israel but not ending there , will not live under the shadow of annihilation .
- 5. Annihilation can create gamma-rays or even new particle-antiparticle pairs .