annihilation

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I therefore endeavored to familiarize all with our surroundings, but scarcely had matters begun to shape themselves as I desired when our annihilation was attempted by a large force of Confederate cavalry On the morning of July 1, 1862, a cavalry command of between five and six thousand-men, under the Confederate General James R. Chalmers, advanced on two roads converging near Booneville.

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  1. noun The act or process of annihilating.
  2. noun The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction.
  3. noun Physics The phenomenon in which a particle and an antiparticle, such as an electron and a positron, meet and are converted completely to energy approximately equivalent to the sum of their masses.

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  • They may have reached the same conclusion I did in yesterday's post - that Hamas just wants a war of annihilation, and nothing else. —  Maverick News Media MNM
  • Faced with another Holocaust and annihilation, the Israelis will bomb the Arabs back into the stone age (a trip that in reality is not that distant), and in the end, will solve the 'Arab problem' once and for all. —  Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
  • Confronting utter annihilation, the Sioux suddenly experienced a religious revival. —  Pro Libertate
  • The concept of total annihilation is an option, especially given the total selfishness of the self-proclaimed "only intelligent creature on Earth", but its rather an easy one, and unfortunetly will include all the other species. —  Tololy's Box
  • "It does particularly well at producing positrons in the annihilation, and the positrons have energies that are about right for these results," Kane said in a phone interview. —  Livescience.com
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  1. = French annihilation; from the verb.
 

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