1
as in eradicated
to destroy all traces of
the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success
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as in destroyed
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
the tornado simply annihilated the family's home
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as in bombed
to defeat by a large margin
we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!
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Recent Examples of annihilated
Coming into work every day and watching your portfolio just absolutely get annihilated day after day while everyone’s getting annihilated is an experience that is a generational experience.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Fatu annihilated Reigns with another vicious clothesline and tossed him shoulder-first into the steel ring post.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
Mary is willing to be annihilated and remade.
—Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
Their radar is 100 percent annihilated.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
Their radar is 100% annihilated.
—James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
And when matter and antimatter particles meet, they are mutually annihilated.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
The two-time, reigning AL MVP had already annihilated a two-run home run in the first inning.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
Yes, Riverdale Ridge annihilated every single Rocky Mountain Basketball league opponent and was hardly tested in state.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Fatu annihilated Reigns with another vicious clothesline and tossed him shoulder-first into the steel ring post.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
Mary is willing to be annihilated and remade.
—Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
Their radar is 100 percent annihilated.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
Their radar is 100% annihilated.
—James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
And when matter and antimatter particles meet, they are mutually annihilated.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
The two-time, reigning AL MVP had already annihilated a two-run home run in the first inning.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
Yes, Riverdale Ridge annihilated every single Rocky Mountain Basketball league opponent and was hardly tested in state.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annihilated
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Key Background The United States eradicated screwworm in the 1960s through a massive sterile fly program, but outbreaks in Mexico and Central America have raised concerns about the parasite moving north again.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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This sequence of events used to occur regularly in the US and Central America; screwworm was endemic here but was eradicated after a concerted, decades-long campaign to annihilate its populations.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
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The current San Geronimo Chapel was built in 1850 to replace a church destroyed in the Mexican American War.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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The video and the SCE data offer proof that the 100-year-old line, which hadn’t been used since the early 1970s, became re-electrified and sparked the fire that killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes in Altadena and surrounding areas, attorneys say.—
Tony Saavedra,
Daily News,
10 June 2026
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But when you’re threatened with your house being bombed, with your reputation being destroyed—that’s not a comfortable environment.—
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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Oil prices rose around 3% after the Pentagon said the United States bombed Iranian military sites, retaliation for Tehran's shooting down of an American drone.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 June 2026
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These Knicks, who erased a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter against Cleveland in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, just don’t quit.—
Tim Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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The matchup emerged after Raman erased a roughly 40,000-vote election night deficit against Pratt and overtook him in subsequent ballot count updates.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
11 June 2026
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That's when the PAW Patrol has to step in to stop Humdinger before the island is ruined!—
Sari Hitchins,
Parents,
10 June 2026
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But Wembanyama and the Spurs ended the streak and ruined the Knicks’ first home NBA Finals game since 1999.—
Brian Mahoney,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
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The combination of sugar snap peas and whipped tofu with a sizzling oil drizzle is a meatless stunner.—
Ellie Krieger,
Washington Post,
10 June 2026
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Merchants in fine suits rode in carriages or on sedan chairs while enslaved people lugging carts and crates wore dirty, threadbare clothing and could be publicly whipped or burned to death for misbehavior.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 June 2026
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Dillon wants to see intimate measurement questions abolished altogether during casting.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
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The golden goal was abolished in 2004 by the International Football Association Board after negative feedback from coaches, referees and players.—
Kierra Frazier,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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But the building was demolished within a day of the fire, making certainty impossible.—
Max Kutner,
HollywoodReporter,
7 June 2026
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The set design is centered around the flooded, burned down, and demolished house that appears in the album visuals and is somehow still standing despite it all.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
7 June 2026
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“Annihilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annihilated. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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