annihilate

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Annihilate its existence in thought, and you annihilate the thing itself with all its predicates; how then can there be any room for contradiction?

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Annihilate, an-nī′hil-āt, v.t. to reduce to nothing: to put out of existence: to render null and void, to abrogate.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Annihilate this classification of junior and senior pleasures.

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various

Annihilate this,—as in the French Revolution was attempted,—and society is at once reduced to its bare immediate force, and must scratch the soil with its fingers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

O save me from my murderous dreams, thou bright Bosom of silence, mouth that sates the sense, Urn of oblivion, pillow of indolence; Annihilate me in thy bosom's night!

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various