Wrecking vs Annihilation - What's the difference?
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The act by which something is wrecked.
* 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.
The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; 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.
The state of being annihilated.
(physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
As nouns the difference between wrecking and annihilation
is that wrecking is the act by which something is wrecked while annihilation is the act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; 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.As a verb wrecking
is present participle of wreck.wrecking
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(en noun)- The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.