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annihilate (v.)
1520s, from an obsolete adj. meaning "reduced to nothing" (late 14c.), originally the pp. of a verb,
anihil
, from O.Fr.
annichiler
, from L.L.
annihilare
"to reduce to nothing," from L.
ad-
"to" +
nihil
"nothing" (see
nil
).
