Root_out vs Annihilate - What's the difference?
root_out | annihilate | Related terms |
To remove or abolish completely.
To search for and discover.
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
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Root_out is a related term of annihilate.
As verbs the difference between root_out and annihilate
is that root_out is to remove or abolish completely while annihilate is to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.root_out
English
Verb
- They rooted out all vestiges of corruption.
- It took them hours to root out exactly where the water was coming in.
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.