See annihilate in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To destroy all traces of:
abolish, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill1, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root1 (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See help, makeTo kill savagely and indiscriminately:
butcher, decimate, massacre, slaughter. See crimes, help, makeTo render totally ineffective by decisive defeat:
crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. (Informal) massacre, wallop. (Slang) clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See winTo put an end to, especially formally and with authority:
abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, set aside, vitiate, void. (Law) extinguish. See continue
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