Annihilating Synonyms and Antonyms

To put an end to, especially formally and with authority
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. extinguishing
  2. voiding
  3. vitiating
  4. nullifying
  5. negating
  6. invalidating
  7. cancelling
  8. annulling
  9. abolishing
To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. smearing
  2. creaming
  3. clobbering
  4. walloping
  5. massacring
  6. vanquishing
  7. trouncing
  8. thrashing
  9. steamrollering
  10. smashing
  11. overwhelming
  12. overpowering
  13. drubbing
  14. crushing
To kill savagely and indiscriminately
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slaughtering
  2. massacring
  3. decimating
  4. butchering
Wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. devastating
  2. withering
  3. annihilative

Words Related to Annihilating

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Annihilating Sentence Examples

  • On the 28th of October r8 r r, Hill, by a very skilful surprise, captured Arroyo de los Molinos (between Badajoz and Trujillo), almost annihilating a French corps under Gerard; and in December 181r the French were repulsed in their efforts to capture Tarifa near Cadiz.

  • It precipitated the RussoTurkish war of 1828-1829, and, by annihilating the Ottoman navy, weakened the resisting power of Turkey to Russia and later to Mehemet Ali.

  • The most striking phenomenon which they bring into prominence is the effect of any considerable quantity of manganese in annihilating the magnetic property of iron.

  • But Egypt was now at once confronted by the Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean Empire (under Nabopolassar), which, after annihilating Assyria with the help of the Medians, naturally claimed a right to the Mediterranean coast-lands.

  • At his great battle of Panipat (January 6, 1761), with vastly inferior numbers, he inflicted on the Mahrattas, then at the zenith of their power, a tremendous defeat, almost annihilating their vast army; but the success had for him no important result.

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