annihilable
English
Etymology
From Latin annihilābilis, from annihilō. Equivalent to annihilate + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈnaɪ.ɪləbəl/
Adjective
annihilable (comparative more annihilable, superlative most annihilable)
- Able to be destroyed completely; capable of being annihilated.
- 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], OCLC 1003933922, page 129:
- The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
- 1734, Isaac Watts, Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects
- […] it cannot be a created substance; because we cannot conceive it creable or annihilable […]
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Translations
able to be annihilated
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