eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
(verb) kill in large numbers; “the plague wiped out an entire population”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
annihilate (third-person singular simple present annihilates, present participle annihilating, simple past and past participle annihilated)
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
(transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
• (to reduce to nothing): benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish
• See also destroy
• (to reduce to nothing): create, generate
Source: Wiktionary
An*ni"hi*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annihilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annihilating.] Etym: [L. annihilare; ad + nihilum, nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread, nothing at all. Cf. File, a row.]
1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.
2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.
3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
An*ni"hi*late, a.
Definition: Anhilated. [Archaic] Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 May 2025
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
