annihilation
/əˌnaɪəˈleɪʃən/
noun
- Complete destruction or elimination of something, so that nothing is left.
- The army's goal was the annihilation of the enemy forces.
- Scientists worry about the annihilation of entire species due to climate change.
- The bomb caused the total annihilation of the small town.
- A decisive defeat in a competition or conflict.
- The company faced financial annihilation after the lawsuit.
- The home team suffered annihilation in the championship game, losing 10–0.
- The debate ended in the annihilation of the opposing argument.
- In physics, the process in which a particle and its antiparticle collide and convert entirely into energy.
- When matter and antimatter meet, they undergo annihilation, releasing huge amounts of energy.
- Annihilation reactions are studied to understand the early universe.
- The experiment observed the annihilation of an electron and a positron.
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