All 5 Uses of
annihilate
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.†
Chpt 8 *annihilated = completely destroyed or defeated
- With a mysterious and terrible Past, which had annihilated his memory, and a blank Future before him, he had only this visionary and impalpable Now, which, if you once look closely at it, is nothing.†
Chpt 10
- All but annihilated!†
Chpt 16
- They give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel!†
Chpt 17
- An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight!†
Chpt 18annihilated = completely destroyed or defeated
Definition:
to completely destroy or defeat