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US
/əˈnaɪəˌɫeɪtɪŋ/
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[ UK /ɐnˈaɪəlˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɐnˈaɪəlˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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making light of
a devastating portrait of human folly
afire with annihilating invective
to compliments inflated I've a withering reply -
wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
possessing annihilative power
the guns opened a withering fire
a devastating hurricane
How To Use annihilating In A Sentence
- At this stage of the Big Bang, the tiny expanding Universe is filled with radiation creating pairs of particles and antiparticles, and pairs of particles and antiparticles annihilating back into radiation.
- Imperialism has never renounced the idea of annihilating socialism or of annihilating the socialist process from the face of the earth. 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 1ST SPEECH
- As myriad examples show, annihilating a people also requires destroying - or allowing to be destroyed - the symbols of that people's history, community, and identity.
- I'm not sure if the anti-matter and matter particles annihilating each other produces some kind of energy.
- The Clan kicked off their last season in the NAIA with a bang, annihilating the Puget Sound Loggers 39-0 at Swanguard Stadium Saturday, Sept.8.
- He writes, ‘These men are nothing buy warlords who are annihilating their own countrymen in return for a position in leadership and the ensuing dimes that will come as foreign aid.’
- This proved the best, probably only strategy in the end, and the film is finally as much about the bravery and tenacity of one gay man in the face of annihilating social forces as anything else.
- A single quark will be surrounded by a sea of continuously appearing and annihilating virtual pairs of quarks and antiquarks, and virtual pairs of gluons and antigluons.
- About the same hour, the Department of Paris presented an Address to the Convention, congratulating it on the steps it had taken for unmasking plots and traitors, and for once more saving the country from the brink of destruction; and it assured the Convention of its full co-operation in annihilating all seditious men. News Report
- The challenge facing an annihilating counterstroke is not theoretical but practical: how do we accomplish it?