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How to pronounce annihilate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out
Type of kill
Verb group decimate
Derivation annihilation, annihilative, annihilator

Examples of annihilate

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North Korea vowed to annihilate Japan if it is believed a threat to the country.
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Play your random hand with careful strategy, and annihilate the opposing armies.
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He has called for Arab states to wage a long-term strategy to annihilate Israel.
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There, they are likely to hit other trapped dark matter particles and annihilate.
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One car wreck does not annihilate the wildlife of miles and miles of shoreline.
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Is to say this, then, to annihilate or deny these noble attributes of our nature?
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After they saw the rest of the universe existed, they decided to annihilate it.
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With Nintendo poised to utterly annihilate it come 3DS time, Sony needs an ace.
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Ramirez breaks into homes, but his intention is not to steal but to annihilate.
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More examples
  • Eliminate: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
  • (annihilated) destroyed completely
  • (annihilating) making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert
  • (annihilation) destruction by annihilating something
  • Annihilation is defined as "total destruction" or "complete obliteration" of an object; having its root in the Latin nihil (nothing). A literal translation is "to make into nothing".
  • (Annihilation (2009)) Bragging Rights (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on October 25, 2009 at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...
  • (Annihilation (album)) Annihilation is an album by the Brazilian death metal band Rebaelliun. It was released in 2001 by Hammerheart Records.
  • (Annihilation (comics)) Annihilation is a Marvel Comics 2006 crossover storyline highlighting several relatively under-used outer space-related characters in the Marvel Universe. The series was piloted by Keith Giffen, with editor Andy Schmidt.
  • (Annihilation (novel)) Annihilation is a NY Times Best Seller fantasy novel by Philip Athans. It is the fifth book of the War of the Spider Queen hexad and, like other books in the series, it is set in the Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons & Dragons.