annihilated
Definition
- Adjective:
- Completely destroyed or obliterated: Describes something that has been utterly wiped out or reduced to nothing, leaving no trace of its former existence.
- Defeated utterly: Can describe a person, group, or force that has been so thoroughly defeated that they are rendered powerless or non-existent.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The city was annihilated by the atomic bomb, leaving nothing but rubble.
- After the scandal, his reputation was completely annihilated.
- The invading army was annihilated by the defenders, with no survivors.
Advanced Usage
- "to feel annihilated": to feel completely emotionally devastated or crushed.
- After losing the championship match, the team felt utterly annihilated.
- Used in scientific contexts (e.g., physics) to describe the complete conversion of matter into energy, as in particle-antiparticle annihilation.
Variants and Related Words
- Annihilate (verb): To destroy completely.
- The policy sought to annihilate poverty in the region.
- Annihilation (noun): The act or process of complete destruction.
- The war brought the annihilation of entire communities.
Synonyms
- Obliterated: Blotted out or destroyed all trace of.
- Exterminated: Destroyed completely, often referring to living things.
- Decimated: Originally meant to kill one in ten, now often used to mean severely reduced or destroyed (though less absolute than "annihilated").
Related Phrases
- Annihilating blow/criticism: A remark or action that is utterly devastating.
- The critic delivered an annihilating review of the film.
- Mutually assured annihilation: A doctrine where a full-scale nuclear conflict would result in the complete destruction of both attacker and defender.
Related Idioms
- To annihilate the competition: To defeat all rivals so thoroughly that they are no longer a factor.
- Their new product is so good it will annihilate the competition.
Adjective
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destroyed completely
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