\An*ni"hi*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Annihilated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Annihilating}.] [L. annihilare; ad +
nihilum, nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread,
nothing at all. Cf. {File}, a row.]
1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the
   existence of; to cause to cease to be.
         It impossible for any body to be utterly
         annihilated.                          --Bacon.
2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of,
   so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to
   annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. ``To
   annihilate the army.'' --Macaulay.
3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a
   thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc.,
   of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

\An*ni"hi*late\ (an*n[imac]"h[i^]*l[asl]t), a.
Annihilated. [Archaic] --Swift.