annihilate

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• UK: /əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 N AY1 AH0 L EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin annihilātus, perfect passive participle of annihilō (“to reduce to nothing”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also an-.

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَفْنَى (ʔafnā) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Azerbaijani: məhv etmək — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Azerbaijani: yox etmək — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Belarusian: знішча́ць (zniščácʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Belarusian: зні́шчыць (zníščycʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Belarusian: зніштажа́ць (zništažácʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Belarusian: знішто́жыць (zništóžycʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Bulgarian: унищожавам (uništožavam) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Bulgarian: изтребвам (iztrebvam) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Catalan: anihilar — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Catalan: aniquilar — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Chinese Mandarin: 殲滅 /歼灭 (jiānmiè) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Chinese Mandarin: 毁灭 (huǐmiè) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Cornish: gordhristrui — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Czech: vyhladit — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Danish: annihilere — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Danish: tilintetgøre — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Dutch: vernietigen — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Esperanto: neniigi — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Finnish: hävittää — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• French: annihiler — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• French: anéantir — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• French: réduire à néant — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• German: vernichten — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Greek: εκμηδενίζω (ekmidenízo) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Hebrew: הִשְׁמִיד (hishmíd) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Hebrew: חִסֵּל (khisél) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Hungarian: megsemmisít — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Icelandic: tortíma — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Ido: nihiligar — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Italian: annichilire — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Italian: annientare — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Japanese: 撲滅する (bokumetsu suru) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Japanese: 殲滅する (semmetsu suru) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Japanese: 根絶する (konzetsu suru) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Japanese: 根刮ぎにする (nekosogi ni suru) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Japanese: 絶滅させる (zetsumetsu saseru) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Central Kurdish: لەناوبردن (lenawbirdin) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Latin: annihilō — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Latin: dēleō — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Malayalam: നശിപ്പിക്കുക (naśippikkuka) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Malayalam: ഉന്മൂലനം ചെയ്യുക (unmūlanaṁ ceyyuka) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Māori: urupatu — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Māori: whakamōtī — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Norwegian Bokmål: tilintetgjøre — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Norwegian Bokmål: annihilere — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Old English: adilgian — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Persian: نابود کردن (nâbud kardan) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Persian: از بین بردن (az beyn bordan) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Polish: unicestwiać — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Polish: unicestwić — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Polish: anihilować — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Portuguese: aniquilar — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Romanian: anihila — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Russian: уничтожа́ть (uničtožátʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Russian: уничто́жить (uničtóžitʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Russian: истребля́ть (istrebljátʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Russian: истреби́ть (istrebítʹ) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Spanish: aniquilar — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Spanish: anihilar — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Swedish: tillintetgöra — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Swedish: förinta — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Swedish: förgöra — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Swedish: utplåna — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Thai: กวาดล้าง (gwàat-láang) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Thai: ทําลาย (tam-laai) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Thai: ทําลายล้าง (tam-laai-láang) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Thai: ถอนรากถอนโคน (tɔ̌ɔn-râak-tɔ̌ɔn-koon) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Turkish: mahvetmek — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Turkish: yok etmek — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Ottoman Turkish: افنا ایتمك (ifna etmek) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Ottoman Turkish: قازیمق (kazımak) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Ukrainian: зни́щувати (znýščuvaty) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Ukrainian: зни́щити (znýščyty) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Welsh: diddymu — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Welsh: difodi — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Yiddish: פֿאַרטיליקן (fartilikn) — to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• Bulgarian: анихилирам (anihiliram) — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Chinese Mandarin: 湮灭 (yan mie) — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Finnish: annihiloitua — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Norwegian Bokmål: annihilere — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Polish: anihilować — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Portuguese: aniquilar — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Russian: аннигилировать (annigilirovatʹ) — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Thai: ประลัย (bprà-lai) — (physics) to react with antimatter
• Catalan: anul·lar — (mathematics) to cause to become zero
• French: annihiler — (mathematics) to cause to become zero
• Portuguese: anular — (mathematics) to cause to become zero