annihilation
annihilation Lexical Profile
annihilation Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Complete destruction or obliteration; the act of reducing something to nothing or the state of being completely destroyed.
"Conservationists warned that losing the wetland habitat would lead to the annihilation of several native amphibian populations."
A total and overwhelming defeat in a competition, election, or contest.
"The championship match ended in the complete annihilation of the defending titleholders by the visiting team."
In physics, the conversion of matter into radiant energy that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its corresponding antiparticle.
"In the laboratory experiment, the collision of an electron and a positron resulted in pair annihilation and the emission of gamma-ray photons."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin annihilatio, from the verb annihilare ('to reduce to nothing'), formed from ad- ('to') and nihil ('nothing').