I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth.
When a particle encounters its antiparticle, they "annihilate" each other, disappearing in a high-energy flash of light.
There is no clear answer to that question; none of the various contenders for power and influence has an obvious ability to annihilate all the others.
Another way to probe the particles' properties is to look for the gamma-ray radiation produced when two WIMPs collide and annihilate each other, producing a cascade of particles and photons.
When the fragile dust grains collide, they can annihilate each other, he said.
But Western Christianity developed an apparatus to crush dissent, to annihilate a plurality of views, to obliterate those who espoused a Gnostic path to spiritual realization.
I was embarrassed how to punish him when I discovered his part in the business: he's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him; but you'll see by his look that he has received his due!
Such terror of the unseen is so far above mere sensual cowardice that it will annihilate that cowardice.
So while an electron has a negative charge, its antimatter counterpart, a positron, has a positive charge and they annihilate each other when they get too close.
Are you allowed to annihilate your trees if you're just renting?
The very law that condemned her- a giant of stern features, but with vigour to support, as well as to annihilate, in his iron arm- had held her up, through the terrible ordeal of her ignominy.
What is clear in these works is a concerted effort to dismiss and, beyond that, to annihilate all that they construe as Gnostic.
That cynical calculation lies behind the design of many weapons that are intended to incapacitate rather than annihilate.
The first and far worse type is the End of Life—the crisis that threatens to annihilate us by destroying our very existence.
This also explains why matter and antimatter annihilate.
We have lost the optimal time to annihilate the enemy.
