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
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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
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Words Related to Annihilating

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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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