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annihilation

noun as in utter destruction.

noun as in abolition

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Nazi texts proclaimed that the annihilation or expulsion of the Armenians was a “compelling necessity.”

It was three or four years of annihilation, and by the end my stomach was in bits.

The consequences of a drug conviction amount to the annihilation of citizenship.

Winters uses that cataclysmic event to examine the slow deterioration of communal life in the face of annihilation.

So she has to be perfect and self-sacrificing to the point of self-annihilation.

The object of these scarli is to manifest the popular exultation at the annihilation of feudal tyranny.

To his excited imagination, we time and again escaped complete wreck and annihilation by a mere hair's breadth.

Its history was no doubt as stirring as that of others of the border castles, which more fortunately escaped annihilation.

Annihilation of ones own identity in the moment is possible in natures domainnever in mans.

To wish to separate technique from poetry is a modern folly which will lead to nothing but the annihilation of Art itself.

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On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to annihilation, such as: decimation, demolition, destruction, elimination, eradication, and extermination.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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