All annihilate synonyms

verb annihilate

• wipe out — an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
• liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
• obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
• decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
• demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• quell — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
• negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
• raze — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
• quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
• murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
• annul — If an election or a contract is annulled, it is declared invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
• invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
• undo — to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done: Murder once done can never be undone.
• abolish — If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
• nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
• vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
• wrack — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
• wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
• do in — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• rub out — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• root out — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
• rout — a bellow.
• take out — the act of taking.
• thrash — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
• overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• conquer — If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
• overpower — to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.