Word Meanings - SELF-ANNIHILATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires. Addison.

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
ANNIHILATIONIST
One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.
ADDISON'S DISEASE
A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
SELF-ANNIHILATION
Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires. Addison.