Third person singular or plural form of annihilate; completely destroys or eliminates something.
Standard present tense conjugation of 'annihilate' from the Latin 'annihilare,' following English regular verb patterns (-ates ending).
When physicists talk about matter and antimatter 'annihilating' each other, they're using a 500-year-old theological term that originally described total spiritual destruction!
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