ANNIHILATING

annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering

(adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; “possessing annihilative power”; “a devastating hurricane”; “the guns opened a withering fire”

annihilating, devastating, withering

(adjective) making light of; “afire with annihilating invective”; “a devastating portrait of human folly”; “to compliments inflated I’ve a withering reply”- W.S.Gilbert

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

annihilating

present participle of annihilate

Source: Wiktionary

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ANNIHILATE

An*ni"hi*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annihilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annihilating.] Etym: [L. annihilare; ad + nihilum, nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread, nothing at all. Cf. File, a row.]

1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.

2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

3. To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

An*ni"hi*late, a.

Definition: Anhilated. [Archaic] Swift.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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