Synonyms of annihilating

annihilating

verb

present participle of annihilate

1

as in eradicating

to destroy all traces of

the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eradicating
• erasing
• abolishing
• destroying
• obliterating
• exterminating
• expunging
• liquidating
• demolishing
• shattering
• effacing
• canceling
• extirpating
• sweeping (away)
• wiping out
• killing
• stamping (out)
• cleaning (up)
• dismantling
• blotting out
• ravaging
• ruining
• decimating
• rooting (out)
• wrecking
• devastating
• discarding
• consuming
• flattening
• blacking out
• smashing
• snuffing (out)
• wasting
• razing
• dissolving
• rubbing out
• pulverizing
• devouring
• fragmenting
• blasting
• ejecting
• totaling
• dashing
• dynamiting
• tearing down
• finishing
• expelling
• splintering
• mowing (down)
• atomizing
• excising
• terminating
• jettisoning
• powdering
• ditching
• ousting
• killing off
• dooming
• zapping
• blowing up
• cutting
• throwing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protecting
• preserving
• saving
• conserving
• creating
• constructing
• making
• forming
• building
• shaping
• manufacturing
• forging
• framing
• restoring
• repairing
• reconstructing
• rebuilding
• fixing
• fashioning
• renewing
• fabricating
• renovating
• revamping
• patching
• reconditioning
• mending

2

as in destroying

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of

the tornado simply annihilated the family's home

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroying
• demolishing
• ruining
• shattering
• wrecking
• devastating
• smashing
• overcoming
• damaging
• wasting
• extinguishing
• decimating
• pulverizing
• vaporizing
• eroding
• ravaging
• razing
• marring
• crushing
• killing
• crippling
• defeating
• totaling
• dismantling
• nuking
• creaming
• blasting
• removing
• wracking
• tearing down
• pulling down
• subduing
• breaking
• desolating
• conquering
• doing in
• injuring
• disintegrating
• impairing
• eradicating
• harming
• dissolving
• spoiling
• mutilating
• licking
• obliterating
• rubbing out
• trimming
• clobbering
• mastering
• whipping
• surmounting
• deteriorating
• exterminating
• disfiguring
• prevailing (over)
• winning (against)
• thrashing
• routing
• besting
• dynamiting
• slaughtering
• beating
• defacing
• mangling
• extirpating
• vitiating
• assassinating
• murdering
• wearing (away)
• undoing
• walloping
• scouring
• plundering
• expunging
• gutting
• triumphing (over)
• liquidating
• disassembling
• sweeping (away)
• trouncing
• effacing
• executing
• massacring
• vandalizing
• sacking
• overmatching
• trampling
• despoiling
• blowing up
• slaying
• pillaging
• dispatching
• looting
• scotching
• overbearing
• washing out
• wiping out
• trashing
• drubbing
• taking down
• zapping
• cutting down
• butchering
• stamping (out)
• blotting out
• unmaking
• skunking
• felling
• killing off
• rooting (out)
• dilapidating
• snuffing (out)
• unbuilding
• mowing (down)
• taking out
• havocking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• constructing
• building
• creating
• raising
• erecting
• repairing
• fixing
• rearing
• producing
• setting up
• making
• forming
• putting up
• establishing
• shaping
• inventing
• assembling
• manufacturing
• protecting
• forging
• organizing
• preserving
• fashioning
• constituting
• framing
• saving
• revamping
• molding
• fabricating
• patching
• reconditioning
• instituting
• conserving
• mending
• founding
• restoring
• bringing about
• doctoring
• reconstructing
• rebuilding
• remodeling
• fathering
• renovating

3

as in overcoming

to defeat by a large margin

we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!

Synonyms & Similar Words

• overcoming
• burying
• whipping
• bombing
• upsetting
• throwing
• flattening
• mastering
• smothering
• beating
• destroying
• trimming
• dusting
• thrashing
• routing
• pasting
• clobbering
• conquering
• taking
• creaming
• topping
• smoking
• surpassing
• whopping
• overwhelming
• skinning
• succeeding
• exceeding
• trouncing
• blowing away
• sweeping
• waxing
• crushing
• tromping
• walloping
• dispatching
• scoring
• whomping
• subduing
• subjugating
• drubbing
• capping
• whupping
• slaughtering
• vanquishing
• shellacking
• eating alive
• beating the pants off
• licking
• overthrowing
• skunking
• running circles around
• surmounting
• wiping the floor with
• snowing under
• transcending
• overpowering
• finishing
• eclipsing
• outdoing
• upending
• besting
• outshining
• prevailing (over)
• winning (against)
• bettering
• hurdling
• outdistancing
• outstripping
• triumphing (over)
• excelling
• overmatching
• knocking over
• flourishing
• overbearing
• overtopping
• knocking off
• breaking
• worsting
• sinking
• outfighting
• edging (out)
• pipping
• acing (out)
• doing in
• nosing out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of annihilating

Chess is about annihilating your opponent. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026

However, this new research showed that these point sources, including pulsars, would be extremely faint, and that is good news for scientists who favor annihilating dark matter as the cause of these gamma rays. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 June 2026

If Neptune did have an original set of moons that more closely resembled those of its planetary neighbors, the arrival of Triton — which is just smaller than our own moon — would have wreaked havoc, crashing into the other satellites and annihilating some of them. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2026

Now southern Republicans are annihilating Black political power. — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026

Instead, it is filled with a froth of virtual particles becoming real in pairs, waving to us, annihilating each other, and sinking back into the soup of virtual particles. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026

One compelling hypothesis is that dark matter particles in the dense central halo are interacting with and annihilating one another, releasing energy as gamma rays. — Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 6 May 2026

That means eliminating Iran's Navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their Air Force and their missile program at levels never seen before, and annihilating their defense industrial base. — James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026

So, if the president succeeds in 'annihilating,' in his words, the Iranian navy, then long-term prospects of closure should decline, and that should increase the likelihood that ships will start sailing again. — David McHugh, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2026