You can hold this word as one movement: something is there, and then it is taken all the way down to nothing. Not dented, not broken - zero. Everything on this page is that drop to zero, done in a different place: to a real city, to a team's chances, or to a particle in a laboratory.
annihilate 可以想成一個動作：本來有東西，然後被一路帶到「零」。不是凹了，也不是破了，而是歸零。這一頁的每個意思，都可以當成同一個歸零發生在不同地方：真實的城市、比賽裡對手的機會，或實驗室裡的一顆粒子。
From the word’s history
The evidence packet traces the word to Latin annihilo, from ad (to) plus nihil (nothing) - literally to bring something to nothing, which is exactly the drop to zero the modern uses share.
提供的來源記載這個字來自拉丁文 annihilō，由 ad（朝向）加 nihil（無）組成，字面就是「把某樣東西帶到無」。這正好就是今天各種用法共同的那個「歸零」。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this batch's evidence packet (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:512266886): "from ad ('to') + nihil ('nothing')".
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