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To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense. Sandys. Expugne the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts. Pope.

To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation. Abbott.

iven on the breaking out of a fire. (b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm. -- Fire annihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to be kept at hand for extinguishing fire by smothering it with some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid. -- Fire balloon. (a) A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of a…

One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. Bunyan.

The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul. This mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. xv. 53.

Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. -- n.

Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.

n, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. Shak.

Nihility; nothingness. [R.]

Nihility; nonexistence.

To deprive of existence; to annihilate. Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know. Milton.

Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl.

Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.] Their expectations will meet with vacuity. Glanvill.

To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. "All these delights will vanish." Milton.

fluffy sublimate when zinc is burned; -- called also flowers of zinc, philosopher's wool, nihil album, etc. The impure oxide produced by burning the metal, roasting its ores, or in melting brass, is called also pompholyx, and tutty. -- Zinc spinel (Min.), a mineral, related to spinel, consisting essentially of the oxi…