All 6 Uses
annihilate
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.
p. 19.7 *annihilated = completely destroyed
- With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
p. 31.2annihilate = completely destroy
- Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.
p. 34.8annihilated = completely destroyed
- Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
p. 125.1annihilated = completely defeated
- War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century.
p. 185.9annihilating = complete destruction or defeat
- You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future.
p. 254.7annihilated = completely destroyed
Definitions:
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(1)
(annihilate) to completely destroy or defeat
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)