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词汇 annihilating
释义 annihilating
present participle ofannihilate
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
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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
trounceinformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Destroying and demolishing
annihilate
annihilation
apocalypse
bash
bash through (something)
be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom
consume
costly
dynamite
erosion
erosional
erosionally
erosive
sabotage
saboteur
sack
sacking
sacrifice
scarred
wipe

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Winning and defeating

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Examples of annihilating


annihilating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


He acknowledges the ways in which science is a "destroyer," annihilating belief in myth, legend, and fantasy with its empirical outlook.
It is thus of particular importance to be ready at all times to subject the aggressor to an annihilating defeat.
He was shocked by the chaos and deep suffering, and felt part of the annihilating process.
But, as we have seen, there might be another way to cut short his time without annihilating him.
The anyons have a certain probability of annihilating each other (leaving a vacuum) when brought together.
Closing the blinds to reduce the available information suppresses motion sickness by annihilating the conflicting information provided by the two visual referents (cabin and landscape).
A constant tension between competing discourses, between creating, preserving, and annihilating memories, characterized the set-up of war remembrance.
There are many steps which can be taken to make it less dangerous and less annihilating than it might otherwise be.
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Unlike other industries, the increasing productivity which fishermen have achieved to a great extent in recent years risks annihilating the product.
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I cannot think of a better way of annihilating completely the opportunity for reconciliation.
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To-day, it is the motor car which is annihilating human beings.
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The impact on local shopping areas would be annihilating.
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It must never serve as a pretext for annihilating the political opposition, riding roughshod over human rights or restricting civil liberties.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
If it were not for this dictatorship, if we could imagine their turning into a democracy to-morrow, the threat of annihilating war might be diminished.
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Uncontrolled, it is destroying communities and annihilating the hopes of the young who want to live in their district.
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