ANNIHILATING Synonyms: 246 Similar and Opposite Words

annihilating

verb

present participle of annihilate

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

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as in destroying

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 overcoming

to defeat by a large margin we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!

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Recent Examples of annihilating 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 Its project is annihilating transformation. —

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This strategy was key to eradicating the pest for the first time in the 1960s.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 June 2026
Some wall texts are labeled The work that remained and describe shortfalls of Obama-era policies and ambitions, such as the Affordable Care Act or eradicating nuclear weapons.

— Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026