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adj. - Wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction.

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Usage examples (12)
  • Possessing annihilative power
  • Verb (used with object), : The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city. ,to annihilate an army. ,to annihilate a law. ,Our basketball team...
  • JH, Iran is a hyper-aggressive, annihilative, nuclear-armed theocratic Islamic regime in the Middle East.
  • Indeed, their very power has made their use intolerable, even unthinkable, because of the annihilative retaliation in kind that such use would invoke.
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