Definition for AN-NI-HI-LA'TION

AN-NI-HI-LA'TION, n.

  1. The act of reducing to nothing, or non-existence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
  2. The state of being reduced to nothing.

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