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
Instead, El Fasher was annihilated.
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Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
The boardwalk was annihilated up and down the peninsula, crushed into pieces and twisted up like a wooden snake.
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Curbed Editors,
Curbed,
23 June 2026
Otherwise, you get annihilated.
—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
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.
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Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
Mary is willing to be annihilated and remade.
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Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
Their radar is 100 percent annihilated.
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ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
Their radar is 100% annihilated.
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James Powel,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
The boardwalk was annihilated up and down the peninsula, crushed into pieces and twisted up like a wooden snake.
—
Curbed Editors,
Curbed,
23 June 2026
Otherwise, you get annihilated.
—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
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.
—
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annihilated
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Decades after a deadly virus known as GRID was said to have eradicated homosexuality, a suburban family’s pristine life unravels the day their teenage son starts to uncover the truth.
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Health officials are warning that the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once thought eradicated from the US, has resurfaced and is threatening cattle, wildlife and pets.
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The second inferno killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures across the Palisades and Malibu and cost billions in damage and insurance claims.
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In Paradise, California, a community destroyed by wildfire adopted the ‘Wildfire Prepared Home Standard’ as its mandatory rebuilding benchmark.
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Helldivers 2 was bombed with hundreds of thousands of negative reviews, and Sony reversed the policy within days.
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After easing through the first three innings, Bryan Reynolds hit a double off the top of the left field fence and Valdez bombed one to left to cut the Phillies' lead to 5-2.
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The equalizing goal erased Sane’s early sting, which didn’t come without controversy.
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By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
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Its front-facing design deters pickpockets, while the water-resistant fabric protects your phone from surprise downpours or sweaty adventure days—because no one wants their phone ruined halfway through a trip.
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In practice, organic liquids like crude oil ruined everything.
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Aceh’s Sharia court ordered the two people to be whipped with a rattan cane 21 times each for kissing without being married.
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Impress party-goers with this Fourth of July colored layered dessert starring fresh berries, angel food cake, and whipped topping.
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In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives.
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Every fifty years, all debt was abolished.
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The East Wing of the White House was demolished suddenly in October 2025 and there is set to be a huge new ballroom, office spaces and an underground military complex in its place, though the design of the new building is still in flux.
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Just months later, in October, the East Wing had been demolished without notice to make way for the new ballroom.
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“Annihilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annihilated. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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