Annihilate

Verb

 * 1) To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

Adverbs for Annihilate
utterly; surely; swiftly; mercifully; unprecedentedly; craftily.

Synonyms for Annihilate

 * (to reduce to nothing) destroy, eradicate, extinguish
 * exterminate, kill, obliterate, abolish, nullify, annul, exterminate, extirpate.

Antonyms for Annihilate
preserve, save.

Related terms

 * annihilation
 * annihilator


 * nihilism
 * nihilist

Thesaurus
abate; abolish; abrogate; abscind; amputate; annul; ban; bar; bereave of life; blot out; bob; bring to naught; cancel; carry away; carry off; chloroform; clip; crop; cull; cut; cut away; cut down; cut off; cut out; decimate; demolish; deprive of life; deracinate; destroy; dispatch; dispose of; do away with; do for; do to death; dock; efface; eliminate; end; enucleate; eradicate; erase; except; excise; exclude; execute; expunge; exterminate; extinguish; extirpate; finish; finish off; immolate; invalidate; isolate; kill; knock off; launch into eternity; liquidate; lop; lynch; make away with; martyr; martyrize; massacre; murder; mutilate; negate; negative; nip; nullify; obliterate; pare; peel; pick out; poison; prune; purge; put away; put down; put to death; put to sleep; quash; quell; quench; raze; remove; remove from life; repeal; revoke; root out; root up; rout; ruin; rule out; sacrifice; set apart; set aside; shave; shear; slay; squash; stamp out; starve; strike off; strip; strip off; suppress; sweep away; take life; take off; take out; truncate; unbuild; undo; uproot; vitiate; void; wipe out; wrack; wreck

Etymology
From annihilo: < ad: + nihil:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, изтребвам
 * Czech: vyhladit
 * Danish: annihilere
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tortíma


 * Ido: nihiligar
 * Japanese: senkei, senkei
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, истреблять
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tillintetgöra, förinta