Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Annihilation

Annihilation ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Compare French annihilation.]

1.
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.
2.
The state of being annihilated. — Hooker