ANNIHILATED Synonyms: 249 Similar and Opposite Words

annihilated

verb

past tense of annihilate

as in eradicated

to destroy all traces of the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success

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as in destroyed

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of the tornado simply annihilated the family's home

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as in bombed

to defeat by a large margin we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!

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Recent Examples of annihilated Just 75 hours after Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb annihilated another Japanese city, killing 73,000 people. — James M. Scott, Time, 10 Aug. 2026 Here, too, a face is lost in another body—though this time the self is annihilated by desire rather than grief. — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026 But they were annihilated 140-89, in the playoff elimination loss. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026 Instead, El Fasher was annihilated. — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026 The boardwalk was annihilated up and down the peninsula, crushed into pieces and twisted up like a wooden snake. — Curbed Editors, Curbed, 23 June 2026 Otherwise, you get annihilated. — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 June 2026 Coming into work every day and watching your portfolio just absolutely get annihilated day after day while everyone’s getting annihilated is an experience that is a generational experience. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026 Fatu annihilated Reigns with another vicious clothesline and tossed him shoulder-first into the steel ring post. — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

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Smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980 and no longer naturally circulates, was once one of the world's deadliest diseases.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
The Asian giant hornet—aka murder hornet—was eradicated from Washington state and hasn’t become established here.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2026

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Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
An airstrike destroyed a house in Ansar town, killing seven people and wounding three others on Saturday morning, NNA said.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

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That’s because this onetime refuge of Pablo Picasso was bombed to hell less than three weeks before the official end of the Second World War.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
In its kinetic war, the US has mostly bombed southern Iran, with more than 1,000 targets hit last month alone.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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Their efforts have successfully erased half the population from public life and made Afghanistan one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a woman.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
But what frightened me most was not death alone, but the idea of dying before my writings reached the world—that my story would disappear with me, and that my feelings, my memories, my identity, and my human experience would be erased.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of erased

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Brentford will be hoping promising midfielder Antoni Milambo can contribute after his debut season was ruined by an ACL injury in October.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Tuesday’s second callback inspection, third inspection overall, got ruined by two dead roaches under a dry storage shelf and four live roaches in dry storage.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of ruined

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Arcila scored with a right-footed shot from the center of the box in the 50th, then whipped the go-ahead goal past Óscar García for his fourth goal of the tournament.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
The bullet apparently whipped across the cab and struck Salgado in the stomach.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of whipped

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Fortunately, Gorbachev would drop his objections to SDI in time for both men to sign a landmark treaty in 1987 that abolished all intermediate range nuclear arms in Europe and made the entire world safer.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
About three-quarters of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of abolished

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In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a Russian glide bomb demolished six floors of a 10-story apartment block, killing one person and wounding 16 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
The facade will join a growing list of other historic sites that have been steadily demolished around Charlotte over the decades.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2026

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