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stroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.

Annihilated by one's self.

To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Capable of being annihilated.

The state of being annihilated. Hooker.

Serving to annihilate; destructive.

One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

ception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention. Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation. Sir W. Hamilton. And, when the steam Which overflowed the soul had passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images…

To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume. I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. Jer. xii. 17.

iate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezek. vii. 15. I waste my life and do my days devour. Spenser.

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.

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

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

Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl.

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