anéantir
French, verb/a.ne.ɑ̃.tiʁ/
anéantir is a French verb meaning “to wipe out, to destroy, to shatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réduire au néant, mettre à néant”.
What does anéantir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wipe out, to destroy, to shatter
- 2
to hit someone for six
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réduire au néant, mettre à néant. 2. Réduire à rien, détruire absolument. 3. Mettre dans un état d’abattement, de faiblesse. 4. Être dans une stupéfaction profonde.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anéantir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- anéantissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- anéanti participle past
- anéantis first-person indicative present
- anéantit indicative present singular
- anéantissons first-person indicative plural
- anéantissez indicative plural present
- anéantissent indicative plural present
- anéantissais first-person imperfect indicative
- anéantissait imperfect indicative singular
- anéantissions first-person imperfect indicative
- anéantissiez imperfect indicative plural
- anéantissaient imperfect indicative plural
- anéantîmes first-person historic indicative
- anéantîtes historic indicative past
- anéantirent historic indicative past
- anéantirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anéantir?
- /a.ne.ɑ̃.tiʁ/
- \a.ne.ɑ̃.tiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anéantir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anéantir in French?
anéantir appears 2.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).