1
as in eradicates
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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2
as in destroys
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 overcomes
to defeat by a large margin
we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for annihilates
Verb
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Producing traditional paper destroys trees and is resource-intensive, requiring up to 13 liters of water for every page made.—
Sandy Ong,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
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In those situations, the team typically takes the potentially explosive item to a remote area and destroys it, just to be safe, Putthoff said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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The new CoFe-2DSA catalyst overcomes these limits through a unique structure.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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Saginaw’s surge overcomes Boswell The Pioneers of Boswell dominated play in the opening half, building a 21-0 lead that looked rock solid behind a persistent defense and an offense balanced with good running and passing.—
Pat Wheeler,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
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Reducing Zarutska’s cruel and untimely death to racist memes also erases the role that mental health — something that Republicans are happy to bring up whenever a white mass shooter guns down Americans in cold blood — likely played in the ghastly crime.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Something that erases any evidence of itself?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps even worse is the horrifying relatability, as the bereaved father ignores the warnings and buries his dead child in an ancient burial ground.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Wednesday sets out to stop Isaac from doing the same to Pugsley, but in the process, Isaac captures Thing (Victor Dorobantu) — revealing that Thing was originally his hand, which Morticia had chopped off — and buries Wednesday alive.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The shift change shatters my sleep like a robin’s egg crashing against pavement.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Most sitcoms that cast celebrities to play themselves go the Thompson route, crafting a character that completely shatters the person’s public image.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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But the choice creators Zach Baylin (King Richard, Creed III) and Kate Susman make to overload their scripts with plot instead of using that time to deepen the story’s many secondary characters flattens the brothers’ world.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
7 Sep. 2025
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Toyota’s hybrid system is amongst the best and most efficient on the market, offering brisk, low-speed response thanks to electric torque, but at higher speeds, acceleration flattens out.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Annihilates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annihilates. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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