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annihilate
verb
- To destroy all traces of: abolish, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill
1, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root
1 (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out.
Idioms:
do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See
help, make
- To kill savagely and indiscriminately: butcher, decimate, massacre, slaughter. See
crimes, help, make
- To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish.
Informal: massacre, wallop.
Slang: clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See
win
- To put an end to, especially formally and with authority: abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, set aside, vitiate, void.
Law: extinguish. See
continue
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