真的把東西弄到什麼都不剩
這是核心畫面最直接的樣子：歸零發生在真實的東西上。
verb · C1
To destroy something or someone so completely that nothing of it is left.
徹底消滅
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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')".
Three branches
比賽裡的誇飾
把歸零的畫面借來形容分數和機會：對手不是真的消失，是完全沒有機會。
verb · C1
To beat another player or team so easily and by so much that they never had a chance.
徹底擊敗
物理裡的湮滅
這裡的歸零是字面上的：一對粒子真的不再以物質的形式存在，換成能量出來。
verb · C2
In particle physics, when a particle meets its antiparticle they annihilate: both disappear, and their mass becomes energy such as gamma rays, or lighter particles.
湮滅