annihilate each other

Willem Mondria - Sat, 12/06/2008 - 21:33
English Notes: 

Goblet: from "what the truth knows to say"
... as a result of which the human beings of Earth who once lived in friendship and association annihilated each other in endless struggles for power and religious wars as well as through terror, feuds, hatred, jealousy, revenge, retribution, murder and manslaughter. ...

English Description: 

to annihilate: 1520s, from an obsolete adjective meaning "reduced to nothing" (late 14c.), originally the pp. of a verb, anihil, from O.Fr. annichiler (14c.), from L.L. annihilare "to reduce to nothing," from L. ad- "to" (see ad-) + nihil "nothing" (see nil). Related: Annihilated; annihilating.

German Translation: 
zerfleischen, sich