[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of reducing to nought, utter destruction, annihilation. (Now gerundial.)
1611. Cotgr., An adnihilating, annichilation, annullation.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 347. Spirits … Cannot but by annihilating die.
1779. J. Moore, View Soc. Fr., II. 157. This would not be annihilating happiness, but only shifting the scene of the wretched.
