Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to annihilate
Participle: annihilated
Gerund: annihilating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | annihilate |
| you | annihilate |
| he;she;it | annihilates |
| we | annihilate |
| you | annihilate |
| they | annihilate |
Perfect
| I | have annihilated |
| you | have annihilated |
| he;she;it | has annihilated |
| we | have annihilated |
| you | have annihilated |
| they | have annihilated |
Past
| I | annihilated |
| you | annihilated |
| he;she;it | annihilated |
| we | annihilated |
| you | annihilated |
| they | annihilated |
Pluperfect
| I | had annihilated |
| you | had annihilated |
| he;she;it | had annihilated |
| we | had annihilated |
| you | had annihilated |
| they | had annihilated |
Future
| I | will annihilate |
| you | will annihilate |
| he;she;it | will annihilate |
| we | will annihilate |
| you | will annihilate |
| they | will annihilate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have annihilated |
| you | will have annihilated |
| he;she;it | will have annihilated |
| we | will have annihilated |
| you | will have annihilated |
| they | will have annihilated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | annihilate |
| you | annihilate |
| he;she;it | annihilate |
| we | annihilate |
| you | annihilate |
| they | annihilate |
Perfect
| I | have annihilated |
| you | have annihilated |
| he;she;it | have annihilated |
| we | have annihilated |
| you | have annihilated |
| they | have annihilated |
Imperfect
| I | annihilated |
| you | annihilated |
| he;she;it | annihilated |
| we | annihilated |
| you | annihilated |
| they | annihilated |
Pluperfect
| I | had annihilated |
| you | had annihilated |
| he;she;it | had annihilated |
| we | had annihilated |
| you | had annihilated |
| they | had annihilated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would annihilate |
| you | would annihilate |
| he;she;it | would annihilate |
| we | would annihilate |
| you | would annihilate |
| they | would annihilate |
Perfect
| I | would have annihilated |
| you | would have annihilated |
| he;she;it | would have annihilated |
| we | would have annihilated |
| you | would have annihilated |
| they | would have annihilated |
Imperative
| you | annihilate |
| we | Let's annihilate |
| you | annihilate |
Verbs conjugated like 'annihilate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'annihilate'
exnihilate,
nihilate,
annominate,
anticipate,
assibilate,
assimilate,
invigilate,
acidulate,
affiliate,
agnominate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- destroy
- to put to death; to extinguish life.
- bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1525, from an obsolete adj. meaning "reduced to nothing" (1388), originally the pp. of a verb, anihil, from O.Fr. annihiler, from L.L. annihilare "to reduce to nothing," from L. ad- "to" + nihil "nothing" (see nil).
2. 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-.
Sample Sentences
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An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
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But eagerness in this case, as in most others, annihilated its own delight; down came the tottering height, while the disappointed builder found relief for his sorrow in anger—sorrow's best remedy after all. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 237:]
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of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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The official Soviet criticism of 'bourgeois philosophy' took for granted that the latter in its various forms was a repetition of the idealist nonsense of Mach and Avenarius, which had been annihilated by Lenin's refutation. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 458:]