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▪ I. annihilating, vbl. n.|əˈnaɪhɪleɪtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of reducing to nought, utter destruction, annihilation. (Now gerundial.)
1611Cotgr., An adnihilating, annichilation, annullation. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 347 Spirits..Cannot but by annihilating die. 1779J. Moore View Soc. Fr. II. 157 This would not be annihilating happiness, but only shifting the scene of the wretched.
▪ II. aˈnnihilating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Reducing to nought, destroying; crushing.
1816Byron Siege Cor. xxiv, That annihilating voice, Which pierces the deep hills through and through. 1865Cornh. Mag. June 655 With that annihilating answer the major's daughter put up her parasol and walked back by herself. |
