annihilate

• vt.消滅させる；克服する；廃止する
• 消滅；抹消

接頭辞an-はad-と同じ。 語源的にはnoと同じnil（ゼロ）については、ニヒリズム、虚無主義を参照のこと。

annihilate

annihilate: [16] Annihilate comes from the past participle of the late Latin verb annihilāre, meaning literally ‘reduce to nothing’ (a formation based on the noun nihil ‘nothing’, source of English nihilism and nil). There was actually an earlier English verb, annihil, based on French annihiler, which appeared at the end of the 15th century, but it did not long survive the introduction of annihilate.
=> nihilism, nil

annihilate (v.)

1520s, from an obsolete adjective meaning "reduced to nothing" (late 14c.), originally the past participle of a verb, anihil, from Old French annichiler (14c.), from Late Latin annihilare "to reduce to nothing," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + nihil "nothing" (see nil). Related: Annihilated; annihilating.

1. The human race has enough weapons to annihilate itself.

人類は自分を絶滅させるのに十分な武器を持っている。

2.Such wonderful and wellestablished facts at once annihilate the theroy.

これらの奇妙で確定的な事実は、すぐにこの説を覆すことができる。

3.An atomic bomb can annihilate a city.

原子爆弾1発で1つの都市を破壊する。

4.I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days！

退屈な時間が早く消えてほしい！

5.A real or virtual photon may spontaneously annihilate .

実または虚の光子は自発的に消滅することができる。