Annihilate vs Vanquish - What's the difference?
annihilate | vanquish |
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
*, II.17:
To defeat, to overcome.
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
As verbs the difference between annihilate and vanquish
is that annihilate is to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate while vanquish is to defeat, to overcome.annihilate
English
Verb
(annihilat)- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.
Synonyms
* (to reduce to nothing) benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish * See alsoAntonyms
* (to reduce to nothing) create, generateExternal links
* * ----vanquish
English
Verb
(es)- They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
- This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.
