词汇 | annihilate |
释义 | annihilate verb[ T ] uk /əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/ us /əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/ to destroy something completely so that nothing is left: 彻底摧毁;消灭;毁灭 a city annihilated by an atomic bomb被原子弹夷为平地的城市 to beat someone in a race, competition, etc. beatUnited beat City 3 - 2. defeatCan Ireland defeat New Zealand in this high-stakes match? conquerThe Greeks had fought and conquered the army of Mardonius. vanquishThe superhero always vanquishes his foes and saves the world. annihilateModern superpowers succeed not by annihilating their enemies but by buying them off. hammerThe Colts got hammered by the Patriots. informal to defeat completely: 彻底击败 He was annihilated in the finals of the competition.在决赛中,他被打了个落花流水。 Synonyms beat(DEFEAT) conquer crush(BEAT) defeat hammer(DEFEAT)informal thrash(DEFEAT)informal trounce to beat someone in a race, competition, etc. beatUnited beat City 3 - 2. defeatCan Ireland defeat New Zealand in this high-stakes match? conquerThe Greeks had fought and conquered the army of Mardonius. vanquishThe superhero always vanquishes his foes and saves the world. annihilateModern superpowers succeed not by annihilating their enemies but by buying them off. hammerThe Colts got hammered by the Patriots. Destroying and demolishing annihilation apocalypse bash bash through (something) be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom blast costly erosion erosional erosionally erosive extirpate saboteur sack sacking sacrifice scarred self-destruct sink wipe You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Winning and defeating Related wordannihilation annihilate | American Dictionaryannihilate verb[ T ] us/əˈnɑɪ·əˌleɪt/ to destroy completely, leaving nothing: The approaching tornado was annihilating everything in its path. annihilationnoun[ U ]us/əˌnɑɪ·əˈleɪ·ʃən/ The annihilation of smallpox is a triumph of medicine. Examples of annihilateannihilate In the abbot's somewhat outlandish style, the former archbishop is referred to as one 'whose memory is not to be annihilated'. In order for younger generations to have a free hand, older generations need not be annihilated ; they simply need to get out of the way. Hence, if the living creatures were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated. A constant tension between competing discourses, between creating, preserving, and annihilating memories, characterized the set-up of war remembrance. Similarly, a let-binding can be spontaneously annihilated due to the presence of a use of weakening the position of which is not syntactically evident. The consciousness of the world's vastness, its measure, which 'is our freedom' (43) is lost and globablity is annihilated. We say 'space is annihilated' but we have annihilated not space, but the sense thereof. The basic idea is that for parametric functions, any use of ana during the computation of a catamorphism will always be annihilated by cata in the final result. Most have seen their savings annihilated and their pensions devalued, and all have had to face up to the degradation of medical care and personal social services. Since agents cannot avoid being annihilated once they visit a black hole, the only way of protection against such processes is identifying the hostile node and avoiding further visiting it. Longer the chromosome is, less effective is the crossover for instance, because it annihilates a large part of the genotype ordering for changing just one small part. Nothing is annihilated in the opera. Let us imagine that the remaining heavenly bodies had been annihilated, so that the only points of matter now existing in the universe are those that constitute the star itself. We do not want part of that fleet to be annihilated by imports about which we do nothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, why be annihilated on a shopping list of policies when one will do the trick? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of annihilate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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