Synonyms for Annihilation
an·ni·hi·la·tion

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1. annihilation, obliterationnoun

   destruction by annihilating something

   Synonyms:
   disintegration, eradication, annihilation, obliteration

2. annihilation, disintegrationnoun

   total destruction

   "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"

   Synonyms:
   disintegration, decomposition, radioactive decay, dissolution, decay, annihilation, obliteration

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1. List of paraphrases for "annihilation":

   extermination, destruction, obliteration, genocide, extinction

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1. James Madison, Federalist 10:

   Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

2. United Nations:

   Humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.

3. Matt Booth:

   Complete annihilation. Just total devastation beyond anything I thought there would be, before it was all wooded and when you looked around, you could see the forest. Now you can just look through as far as you can see because there's nothing left.

4. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized anti-Semitism.

5. Albert Einstein:

   We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.