Annihilation

Noun

 * 1) The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the  act of destroying the form or combination of parts under  which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
 * 2) The state of being annihilated.
 * 3)  The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Adjectives for Annihilation
utter; sure; swift; terrible; bloody; merciful; beastly; unprecedented; crafty.

Thesaurus
abolishment; abolition; abscission; amputation; annulment; bane; biological death; cessation of life; choking; choking off; clinical death; crossing the bar; curtains; death; death knell; debt of nature; decease; demise; departure; deracination; destruction; dissolution; doom; dying; ebb of life; elimination; end; end of life; ending; eradication; eternal rest; excision; exclusion; exit; expiration; extermination; extinction; extinguishment; extirpation; final summons; finger of death; going; going off; grave; hand of death; jaws of death; knell; last debt; last muster; last rest; last roundup; last sleep; leaving life; liquidation; loss of life; making an end; mutilation; negation; nullification; parting; passing; passing away; passing over; perishing; purge; quietus; release; rescission; rest; reward; rooting out; sentence of death; shades of death; shadow of death; silencing; sleep; snuffing out; somatic death; stifling; strangulation; suffocation; summons of death; suppression; uprooting; voiding

Etymology
From ad: + nihil:. Compare with French annihilation:.

Related terms

 * annihilate
 * annihilator

Translations

 * Bulgarian: унищожение, изтребване
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish: tuhoaminen, hävittäminen
 * Ido: nihiligo


 * Italian:, ,
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Spanish: aniquilación


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 * Bulgarian: анихилация
 * Croatian:
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 * Finnish:
 * Ido: nihiligo
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