<\/p>\n

What does <\/span>annihilate<\/i>\u00a0mean?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a verb that means\u00a0to destroy (something or someone) completely; obliterate OR\u00a0to defeat (someone) completely.<\/p>\n

How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\/\u0259\u02c8n\u028c\u026a\u026ale\u026at\/<\/p>\n

or<\/p>\n

[an\u00b7ni\u00b7hi\u00b7late]<\/p>\n

Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the 1520’s,\u00a0Late Latin ‘annihilatus’, past participle of ‘annihilare’, to bring to nothing.<\/p>\n

How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example,\u00a0“The enemy troops were\u00a0annihilated<\/em>.” OR “He\u00a0annihilated<\/em>\u00a0his opponent in the last election.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does annihilate\u00a0mean? It is a verb that means\u00a0to destroy (something or someone) completely; obliterate OR\u00a0to defeat (someone) completely. How do you pronounce it? \/\u0259\u02c8n\u028c\u026a\u026ale\u026at\/ or [an\u00b7ni\u00b7hi\u00b7late] Where does it come from? From the 1520’s,\u00a0Late Latin ‘annihilatus’, past participle of ‘annihilare’, to bring to nothing. How do you use it? For example,\u00a0“The enemy troops were\u00a0annihilated.” … Continue reading Interesting Words and Expressions \u2013 Annihilate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/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"],"_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}]}}