Annihilate.
destroy something: to destroy something completely, especially so that it ceases to exist.
defeat somebody: to defeat somebody easily and decisively.
This definition wasn’t what I expected, somehow when people spoke of being annihilated, they were speaking of being put aside, a feeling of disconnection. Not that they were defeated, destroyed, and that you cease to exist, wow this changes the meaning for me.
Oprah spoke of feeling annihilated, that her grandmother used to beat her and after giving her a whipping her grandmother didn’t want to see an expression of pain. Oprah wasn’t allowed to express that or show how painful it was. So she annihilated the experience from herself.
The whippings had to be destroyed or cease to exist and she had to annihilate herself from feelings, to disconnect from the sensations of her body, to not feel what she felt.
Her grandmother also annihilated the little girl.
It is so easy for an adult to do this to a child, to easily and decisively defeat someone that is half your size and to destroy completely their innocence so it ceases to exist, to leave the child annihilated from being a child.
How tragic this application of annihilation is when applied to children who suffer under the hands of confused adults, how they are literally disconnecting the child from its own body, its feelings and sets them upside down with their feelings.
We love and fear and respect those who hurt us for we are not allowed to express what our bodies are speaking.
Annihilation is the perfect word for abuse. It destroys who we would have been, that person ceases to exist.
We are annihilated from the truth of who we are.
I M Perfect lady 