English-Italian translations for annihilate

• annichilire
• annientare
  La guerra fredda ha comportato un riarmo nucleare di proporzioni folli, in grado di annientare l'intera umanità. The Cold War resulted in insane nuclear armament, which could annihilate all of humanity.
  E' scandaloso che, in nome dell'efficienza, si applichino metodi intesi a superare le crisi e a porre fine alla povertà, ma che in pratica rischiano di annientare i poveri. It is scandalous that, in the name of efficiency, methods are applied which are intended to overcome crisis and end poverty, but which in practice threaten to annihilate the poor.

Definition of annihilate

• To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
• To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation
• To render null and void; to abrogate

Examples

• An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.

Related words

• annihilation
• annihilator
• annihilationist
• annihilationism
• annihilative
• self-annihilation
• self-annihilate