Rhymes with annihilate

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ate — Ate is the past tense of eat.
bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
date — A date is a specific time that can be named, for example a particular day or a particular year.
fate — something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
gate — Archaic. a path; way.
great — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
late — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
mate — a tealike South American beverage made from the dried leaves of an evergreen tree.
nile — a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.

castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
dilate — to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
highway — a main road, especially one between towns or cities: the highway between Los Angeles and Seattle.

aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
devastate — If something devastates an area or a place, it damages it very badly or destroys it totally.
hibernate — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
violate — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).

abbreviate — If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
assimilate — When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
isocyanate — a salt or ester of isocyanic acid.
obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
retaliate — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
violated — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).

annihilated — to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly: The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city.
annihilating — to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly: The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city.

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