annichilire

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Variant of older annichilare, borrowed from Latin annihilāre (to reduce to nothing), from ad (to) + nihil (nothing).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /an.ni.kiˈli.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: an‧ni‧chi‧lì‧re
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Verb

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annichilìre (first-person singular present annichilìsco, first-person singular past historic annichilìi, past participle annichilìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to annihilate
  2. (transitive) to devastate

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • annichilire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana