Annihilated vs Survived - What's the difference?
annihilated | survived |
(annihilate)
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:
(survive)
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
To live longer than; to outlive.
* Shakespeare
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:
To live past a life-threatening event.
(sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
As verbs the difference between annihilated and survived
is that annihilated is (annihilate) while survived is (survive).annihilated
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(head)annihilate
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(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
* * ----survived
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(head)survive
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(surviv)- His children survived''' him; he was '''survived by his children.
- I'll assure her of / Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, / In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
- ‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’
- He did not survive the accident.