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
• destroying
• abolishing
• obliterating
• exterminating
• cancelling
• expunging
• demolishing
• liquidating
• shattering
• effacing
• canceling
• extirpating
• sweeping (away)
• wiping out
• killing
• stamping (out)
• cleaning (up)
• blotting out
• dismantling
• ravaging
• ruining
• decimating
• rooting (out)
• wrecking
• devastating
• discarding
• flattening
• consuming
• blacking out
• smashing
• snuffing (out)
• razing
• rubbing out
• wasting
• totalling
• dissolving
• pulverizing
• devouring
• fragmenting
• blasting
• ejecting
• dashing
• totaling
• finishing
• dynamiting
• expelling
• tearing down
• 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
• totalling
• 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
• mastering
• whipping
• surmounting
• deteriorating
• exterminating
• disfiguring
• prevailing (over)
• winning (against)
• thrashing
• routing
• besting
• dynamiting
• slaughtering
• beating
• defacing
• clobbering
• mangling
• extirpating
• assassinating
• vitiating
• murdering
• wearing (away)
• undoing
• walloping
• scouring
• plundering
• expunging
• gutting
• triumphing (over)
• liquidating
• disassembling
• sweeping (away)
• trouncing
• executing
• effacing
• massacring
• vandalizing
• overmatching
• sacking
• 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
• throwing
• flattening
• mastering
• clobbering
• upsetting
• smothering
• beating
• trimming
• destroying
• dusting
• routing
• thrashing
• trouncing
• pasting
• conquering
• creaming
• taking
• topping
• walloping
• surpassing
• whopping
• smoking
• overwhelming
• skinning
• exceeding
• succeeding
• blowing away
• drubbing
• sweeping
• tromping
• waxing
• crushing
• dispatching
• whomping
• whapping
• scoring
• capping
• subjugating
• subduing
• whupping
• running rings around
• shellacking
• vanquishing
• eating alive
• slaughtering
• beating the pants off
• skunking
• overthrowing
• running circles around
• wiping the ground with
• licking
• surmounting
• wiping the floor with
• snowing under
• transcending
• overpowering
• eclipsing
• finishing
• outdoing
• upending
• besting
• outshining
• prevailing (over)
• winning (against)
• bettering
• hurdling
• outdistancing
• overbearing
• outstripping
• triumphing (over)
• excelling
• overmatching
• knocking over
• flourishing
• overtopping
• knocking off
• worsting
• breaking
• outfighting
• sinking
• edging (out)
• acing (out)
• pipping
• doing in
• nosing out