Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   annihilation

   /əˌnʌɪəˈleɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. complete destruction or obliteration: "the threat of global annihilation"
   • ▪ total defeat: "a show of independence is its only hope of avoiding annihilation in next year's elections"
   • 2. the conversion of matter into energy, especially the mutual conversion of a particle and an antiparticle into electromagnetic radiation.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from late Latin annihilatio(n-), from the verb annihilare (see annihilate).

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • N

     1

   • I

     1

   • H

     4

   • I

     1

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points