Annihilate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Annihilated.

II. Annihilate ·vt To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.

III. Annihilate ·vt 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.

IV. Annihilate ·vt 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.