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

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1. annihilation, obliterationnoun

   destruction by annihilating something

   Synonyms:
   disintegration, eradication, obliteration

2. annihilation, disintegrationnoun

   total destruction

   "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"

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

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1. • Destruction

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1. List of paraphrases for "annihilation":

   extermination, destruction, obliteration, genocide, extinction

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How to use annihilation in a sentence?

1. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling.

2. Ted Hui:

   Hong Kong currently has more than 1,000 political prisoners, in addition to a justice system destroyed by the evil national security law, as well as the total annihilation of free press and democratic society.

3. 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 antisemitism.

4. Jonar Nader:

   Those who construct loyalty programs through frequent-flyer points and the like, are merely trying to trap the customer. Loyalty must come naturally, not via points and schemes. If your customers are loyal to you as a result of such programs, then surely you realize that they are not loyal. Such schemes are tangible, and tangible things are susceptible to the law of annihilation. Anything that you do, can be matched by your competitor.

5. 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.