Meaning

2 senses
  1. The action of consciousness, which is the origin of negation in facticity.

  2. (obsolete)To annul.

Origin

From Latin nihilō (“to reduce to nothing”).

From Latin nihilō (“to reduce to nothing”).

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Forms

nihilates, nihilating, nihilated, nihilated
Base formnihilate · to nihilate
3rd person singularnihilates
Present participlenihilating
Past simplenihilated
Past participlenihilated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynihilate
he, she, itnihilates

Past simpleLesson

all personsnihilated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave nihilated
he, she, ithas nihilated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill nihilate

Word family

2 related words
Relatednihilation
Derivednihilator

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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