{"id":2591,"date":"2014-11-27T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:25:07","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-annihilate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-annihilate\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words and Expressions \u2013 Annihilate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/econews.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nuclear-explosion-460x250.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">What does <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">annihilate<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is a verb that means\u00a0to destroy (something or someone) completely; obliterate OR\u00a0to defeat (someone) completely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\/\u0259\u02c8n\u028c\u026a\u026ale\u026at\/<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n[an\u00b7ni\u00b7hi\u00b7late]\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the 1520&#8217;s,\u00a0Late Latin &#8216;annihilatus&#8217;, past participle of &#8216;annihilare&#8217;, to bring to nothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example,\u00a0&#8220;The enemy troops were\u00a0<em>annihilated<\/em>.&#8221; OR &#8220;He\u00a0<em>annihilated<\/em>\u00a0his opponent in the last election.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does annihilate\u00a0mean? It is a verb that means\u00a0to destroy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[949,950,182,476,166,107,1657],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-anniilate","tag-destroy","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-interesting-word","tag-learn","tag-nothing","tag-november-2014","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}