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• v  kill in large numbers
• s  wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
• s  making light of
  afire with annihilating invective

• After a decade-long occupation, the Soviets were ousted by a murderer's row of warlords who immediately started annihilating one another, in the process bestowing generous .
• But the pained expression on her chubby, homely face conveys considerably more ambivalence about the idea of annihilating herself to kill Israelis and restore her family's "honor.
• Next door, Ho and his genius general, Vo Nguyen Giap, forged Vietnam's peasants into a force capable of annihilating a garrison of legionnaires at Dien Bien Phu (though aided by .

• eliminate
• annihilate
• extinguish
• eradicate
• wipe out
• decimate
• carry off
• annihilative
• devastating
• withering

News & Articles

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• 30 Under 30: Energy
  With fellow MIT Phd candidate Mark Massie, 26, Dewan is working to develop a new nuclear reactor design. The Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor (WAMSR) will utilize liquid fuel consisting mainly of the 'spent' fuel rods from the nation's fleet of Light Water Reactors, which Dewan says still contain enough energy to power the entire U.S. for 70 years.
  June 24, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Charlotte Knobloch in International Herald Tribune
  Today we can show the entire world that Hitler did not succeed in annihilating us,said Charlotte Knobloch, Germany's top Jewish leader who was a girl in Munich the night the Nazis attacked synagogues and Jewish businesses nationwide 68 years ago.
• Ehud Olmert in Reuters.uk
  Clinton disclosed in private that Indian officials spoke of knowing roughly how many nuclear bombs the Pakistanis possessed, from which they calculated that a doomsday nuclear volley would kill 300 to 500 million Indians while annihilating all 120... Taylor Branch http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Branch&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQGkXcwkEmUXmKhd7RDxXsBBSyxg Australia.TO http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.australia.to/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D14681:anxiety-in-kashmir-on-indo-pak-nuclear-war-threat%26catid%3D139:fayaz-wani%26Itemid%3D122&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH_g0t-ZAnmnNWuunltBFXZ Sep 30, 2009 3978 5940 annihilation Israel doesn't threaten any country with anything -- never did," Olmert told SAT 1. "The most that we tried to get for ourselves is to be able to live without terror. But we never threatened any nation with annihilation. Iran, openly,...