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Another word for annihilate

Verb

  1. To destroy all traces of

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    make

    help

  2. To kill savagely and indiscriminately

    3. See also:

    make

    help

    crimes

  3. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat

    4. See also:

    win

  4. To put an end to, especially formally and with authority

    5. See also:

    continue

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Another word for annihilate

Verb
    2. See also:

    destroy

    See syn. study at

    destroy

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Sentence Examples

  • Did you really almost annihilate the human race?

  • Did you really almost annihilate the human race?

  • The reasoning behind MAD was that if we can annihilate the Soviets or the Chinese and they in turn can annihilate us, then none of us will start a war.

  • If Ritschl had clearly shown that judgments of value enfold and transform other types of knowledge, just as the "spiritual man" includes and transfigures but does not annihilate the "natural man," then within the compass of this spiritually conditioned knowledge all other knowledge would be seen to have a function and a home.

  • It is now generally recognized that Hertzian wave telegraphy, or radio-telegraphy, as it is sometimes called, has a special field of operations of its own, and that the anticipations which were at one time excited by uninformed persons that it would speedily annihilate all telegraphy conducted with wires have been dispersed by experience.

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