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Synonyms for annihilate
əˈnaɪ əˌleɪtan·ni·hi·late

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. annihilateverb

    Synonyms:
    extinguish, destroy, benothing, eradicate

  2. annihilateverb

    To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

    Synonyms:
    eradicate, extinguish, benothing, destroy

  3. annihilateverb

    To treat as worthless, to vilify.

    Synonyms:
    benothing, destroy, extinguish, eradicate

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. 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.

    Synonyms:
    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

    Antonyms:
    authorize, cherish, confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, introduce, legalize, promote, reinstate, renew, repair, restore, revive, set up, support, sustain

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. annihilate

    Synonyms:
    abolish, destroy, bring to nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify, exterminate, end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface

    Antonyms:
    keep, conserve, preserve, foster, tend, protest, cherish, develope, stabilitate, augment, cultivate, perpetuate

Princeton's WordNet2.7 / 3 votes

  1. 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 Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. preserve

    Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. annihilateverb

    Synonyms:
    destroy, extinguish, quench, kill, exterminate, raze, blast, ruin, nullify, annul, put an end to

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "annihilate":

    exterminate, obliterate, destroy, overwhelm

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How to use annihilate in a sentence?

  1. Mickey Mehta:

    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 :)

  2. Gary Howell:

    If you want them out of the park, you are going to have to annihilate them; shoot every last one of them, once these lead cows know where to go, you'll never move them.

  3. President Barack Obama:

    Israel will not accept an agreement which allows a country that vows to annihilate us to develop nuclear weapons, period. there is no daylight when it comes to our support for Israel's security.

  4. Efraim Zuroff:

    The system that the Nazis put in place in order to annihilate the Jewish people and the others they classified as enemies was made up of all sorts of people who fulfilled all sorts of tasks, obviously Oskar Groening is not as guilty as (SS head) Heinrich Himmler... but he contributed his talents to helping the system carry out mass murder.

  5. Joel Rosenberg:

    Apocalyptic Islam doesn’t want to simply attack us, it wants to annihilate us, apocalyptic Muslims like the leaders of Iran and the leaders of the Islamic State believe that we are living in the End Times and that it’s their mission from Allah to bring about the end of the world as we know it.


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