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annihilate v.消灭；歼灭；彻底消除；使无效；废止 (1) 美国那点原子弹，消灭不了中国人。(2) 我们必须聚敌而歼灭之。 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?

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英 [ə'naɪəleɪt] 美 [ə'naɪəleɪt] (1) The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs.(2) We must herd the enemy troops together and annihilate them. 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. 1[VERB 动词]歼灭；消灭；毁灭；彻底击溃 To annihilate something means to destroy it completely.   [V n]There are lots of ways of annihilating the planet...毁灭地球有很多方法。The Army was annihilated.陆军被彻底击溃了。annihilation...the threat of nuclear war and annihilation of the human race.核战争的威胁和人类的灭绝2[VERB 动词]（在竞赛或争论中）彻底击败，大胜 If you annihilate someone in a contest or argument, you totally defeat them.   [V n]The Dutch annihilated the Olympic champions 5-0.荷兰队以5比0完胜奥运冠军队。

英语单词	annihilate
英美音标	英 [ə'naɪəleɪt] 美 [ə'naɪəleɪt]
中文释义	v.消灭；歼灭；彻底消除；使无效；废止
英语例句	(1) The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. (2) We must herd the enemy troops together and annihilate them.
中文例句	(1) 美国那点原子弹，消灭不了中国人。 (2) 我们必须聚敌而歼灭之。
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	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?
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]歼灭；消灭；毁灭；彻底击溃 To annihilate something means to destroy it completely. [V n] There are lots of ways of annihilating the planet... 毁灭地球有很多方法。 The Army was annihilated. 陆军被彻底击溃了。 annihilation ...the threat of nuclear war and annihilation of the human race. 核战争的威胁和人类的灭绝 2 [VERB 动词]（在竞赛或争论中）彻底击败，大胜 If you annihilate someone in a contest or argument, you totally defeat them. [V n] The Dutch annihilated the Olympic champions 5-0. 荷兰队以5比0完胜奥运冠军队。

Annihilate Killing Human Verb 动词 [V N Annihilation