Verb (used with object), : The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city. ,to annihilate an army. ,to annihilate a law. ,Our basketball team annihilated the visiting team.    From Dictionary.com. 

Thu 07/01/10 9: 16 PM p.s. I think you mean "annihilated" - decimated means "to reduce by 1/10th.".    From Wordnik.com.  [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference

The tone of that one word annihilated hope in Clarissa's mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lovels of Arden] Reference

Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

In a single stroke, her social network had been annihilated, which is a lot worse than losing your playlists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salon] Reference

Bent had said he would avoid Twitter because he expected to be "annihilated" by Sunderland fans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darren Bent gets death threats as Aston Villa reject Sunderland claims] Reference

Morris's rationalization that had the Palestinians not been expelled, the entire Yishuv would have been "annihilated" is unconvincing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Israel: The Threat from Within': An Exchange] Reference

Fixed an issue where a glider shot down in mid-air would prevent the commonwealth faction from being 'annihilated'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voodoo Extreme] Reference

Fixed an issue where a glider shot down in mid-air would prevent the commonwealth faction from being "annihilated".    From Wordnik.com.  [4Players.de News] Reference

Government on every literary conflagration of this kind and forwarding to the Ministry of the Interior one copy of each "annihilated" book.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)] Reference

"annihilated" after the Kurdish rebel group killed 12 Turkish soldiers over the weekend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

The spirit of conscious life cannot be annihilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference

It is being overcome; it is being almost annihilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

We shall be enslaved, and perhaps annihilated forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference

Another voice booms: "Now we have annihilated the enemy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending Taiwan] Reference

When Berlin and Dresden were annihilated it was a lot worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Such action would have annihilated the difficulties in a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

As fast as more horses were brought up they were annihilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

They were quickly annihilated in the one tank-on-tank battle of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret War] Reference

Are your courage and your zeal for the glory of the kingdom annihilated?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Who can complain if the basis of their rebellious scheme is annihilated?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

And just before the fireball annihilated the gas station, he jumped clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sugarexplosion] Reference

Do you suppose I will let that man think that I am completely annihilated?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

The Roman army was almost annihilated, and Regulus himself was taken prisoner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

They had been annihilated while they opened their juice cartons for breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  ['This Is Not A Movie. It's A Town. It's Our Hom] Reference

Government is controlled by the States, and, for all practical purposes, annihilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

As intimated before, some think he will be restored; others think he will be annihilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

The Nasdaq has been virtually annihilated and is trading at roughly 40 percent of its peak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is There Life In The Bubble?] Reference

"She'd be completely annihilated by the liberal media," a female delegate from Texas told me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Lessons From the Southern Republican Leadership Conference] Reference

What could I do when the centre of my life, my heart itself, was ruined, killed, annihilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Of court you know then, that a letterhead is always annihilated by its recital, and so once that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference

The Imperial Horse lay quiet, and the enemy thinking they were perhaps annihilated ceased firing.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Washington almost lost the war in the first year, when the Continental Army was nearly annihilated.    From Wordnik.com.  [WELCOME TO 2004, PRESIDENT WASHINGTON] Reference

There where the dignity of women is bruised, crushed, annihilated, Humanity in its entirety recedes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Three More Letters to Sakineh] Reference

Recall the ringing cries that rebuilding the annihilated 108 stories would be the "best answer" to the terrorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tolerance at Ground Zero] Reference

Never before in Trush's dangerous career had he seen a human "so thoroughly and gruesomely annihilated," Vaillant writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival"] Reference

As president, Rajapaksa was in charge when Sri Lankan forces finally annihilated the island's Tamil Tiger separatists last May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sri Lanka Election Down To The Wire] Reference

So Mr. Richardson did what was necessary: "Tony just annihilated him," said Brian Schottenheimer, the Jets 'offensive coordinator.    From Wordnik.com.  [He's a Throwback and a Survivor] Reference