What are some opposite words for annihilate?
Antonyms for annihilate
əˈnaɪ əˌleɪtan·ni·hi·late
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term annihilate.
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annihilateverb
Synonyms:
extinguish, destroy, benothing, eradicateannihilateverb
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
Synonyms:
eradicate, extinguish, benothing, destroyannihilateverb
To treat as worthless, to vilify.
Synonyms:
benothing, destroy, extinguish, eradicate
English Synonyms and Antonyms
annihilate
Abolish, to do away with, bring absolutely to an end, especially as something hostile, hindering, or harmful, was formerly used of persons and material objects, a usage now obsolete except in poetry or highly figurative speech. Abolish is now used of institutions, customs, and conditions, especially those wide-spread and long existing; as, to abolish slavery, ignorance, intemperance, poverty. A building that is burned to the ground is said to be destroyed by fire. Annihilate, as a philosophical term, signifies to put absolutely out of existence. As far as our knowledge goes, matter is never annihilated, but only changes its form. Some believe that the wicked will be annihilated. Abolish is not said of laws. There we use repeal, abrogate, nullify, etc.: repeal by the enacting body, nullify by revolutionary proceedings; a later statute abrogates, without formally repealing, any earlier law with which it conflicts. An appellate court may reverse or set aside the decision of an inferior court. Overthrow may be used in either a good or a bad sense; suppress is commonly in a good, subvert always in a bad sense; as, to subvert our liberties; to suppress a rebellion. The law prohibits what may never have existed; it abolishes an existing evil. We abate a nuisance, terminate a controversy. Compare CANCEL; DEMOLISH; EXTERMINATE.
Antonyms:
authorize, cherish, confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, introduce, legalize, promote, reinstate, renew, repair, restore, revive, set up, support, sustainSynonyms:
abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, destroy, end, end, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, prohibit, remove, repeal, reverse, revoke, set aside, stamp out, subvert, supplant, suppress, terminate
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
annihilate
Antonyms:
keep, conserve, preserve, foster, tend, protest, cherish, develope, stabilitate, augment, cultivate, perpetuateSynonyms:
abolish, destroy, bring to nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify, exterminate, end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface
Princeton's WordNet
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offverb
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
Synonyms:
obviate, bear off, eat up, crush out, pull off, rule out, exhaust, reject, negociate, take away, eliminate, get rid of, manage, bear away, use up, rid of, bring off, extirpate, decimate, exterminate, press out, kill, eat, obliterate, run through, quench, cancel out, snuff out, pass, wipe out, carry away, do away with, stub out, uproot, blow out, winnow out, excrete, root out, erase, extinguish, sweep away, carry off, consume, egest, deplete, eradicate
Editors Contribution
protect
we had to protect the vase.
Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019
How to use annihilate in a sentence?
Every human is a God in seed form waiting for it's flowering, but not letting it blossom impeded by his own ego, he remains earthly. So annihilate your ego and evolve to divinity MickeyMizing your life. Share this for conversion of angels from humans and let us all know only bliss :)
We need the nature so we can be, we have plenty to learn from it. In our ignorance we continuously try to annihilate it so we can have more existence…
What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life, let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings.
It is worth any price to annihilate the next generation of white children. We want every white father to feel the sting of having their children marry colored mates and produce biracial children.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#148 | support | |
#656 | keep | |
#1043 | institute | |
#1056 | continue | |
#1666 | repair | |
#2406 | promote | |
#3085 | establish | |
#3358 | confirm | |
#4460 | foster | |
#4855 | tend | |
#5050 | introduce | |
#5701 | restore | |
#6750 | preserve | |
#7148 | protest | |
#8383 | renew | |
#10918 | authorize | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#19974 | conserve | |
#22955 | enact | |
#23117 | revive | |
#24442 | cultivate | |
#25495 | cherish | |
#26007 | augment | |
#37650 | reinstate | |
#38147 | perpetuate | |
#43431 | legalize | |
#66079 | annihilate | |
#76814 | develope |
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