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annihilate 【annihilate】n.消失Three survivors told us in detail how the regiment was annihilated by the enemy.三个生还者详细地告诉了我们军团是如何被敌人消灭的。

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[ə'naɪəleɪt] 
annihilatekill in large numbers
Killing ends when the thing you are killing (your sworn enemy, all hope, a gerbil) is dead. Annihilate goes farther—when you annihilate something, you wipe all trace of it from the earth.
You kill a person, but you annihilate a tribe, a town, or even a species. It's nice to think that the human race made it all the way up until the 16th century before annihilate came to mean what it does now. Might this have something to do with the increasing use of gunpowder around this time?
All forms of 'annihilate' will appear on average once every 680 pages.annihilateannihilatedannihilatingannihilationannihilativeannihilatorself-annihilation

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Back	【annihilate】 n.消失 Three survivors told us in detail how the regiment was annihilated by the enemy. 三个生还者详细地告诉了我们军团是如何被敌人消灭的。
Vocab	annihilatekill in large numbers Killing ends when the thing you are killing (your sworn enemy, all hope, a gerbil) is dead. Annihilate goes farther—when you annihilate something, you wipe all trace of it from the earth. You kill a person, but you annihilate a tribe, a town, or even a species. It's nice to think that the human race made it all the way up until the 16th century before annihilate came to mean what it does now. Might this have something to do with the increasing use of gunpowder around this time? All forms of 'annihilate' will appear on average once every 680 pages. annihilate annihilated annihilating annihilation annihilative annihilator self-annihilation

Annihilate Kill Killing ə'Naɪəleɪt N.消失 Survivors Told Detail