anéantir

Il va anéantir toute la ville.
He's gonna wipe out the entire city.
La menace est si grave qu'elle va anéantir tous les progrès vers l'objectif visant à réduire de moitié la pauvreté dans le monde d'ici 2015.
So grave is the threat that it will cancel out all progress towards the goal of halving world poverty by 2015.
 » L'« apocalypse », c'était la guerre thermonucléaire, la catastrophe climatique, l'instabilité sociale qui va anéantir le monde tel que nous le connaissons. Et plus crucial, rendre leur argent sans valeur.
By "the event" they mean the thermonuclear war or climate catastrophe or social unrest that ends the world as we know it, and more importantly, makes their money obsolete.
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