annihilate
‘reduce to nothing’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. adnihillate, adnychilate, annychilate, annichilate < Med.Lat. annihilatus < annihilare ‘reduce to nothing’ < Lat. ad ‘to’ + nihil ‘nothing’ < nil ‘nothing, not at all; in vain’ + hilum ‘small thing, trifle’ < uhn < ne- < Tamil al