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annihilates

  • present tense form of annihilate (3rd person singular).

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“She annihilates people on the steep pitch that’s like a sheet of ice,” Street said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

“It annihilates any hope we have left,” said Paul Naggear, an activist for the families of the blast victims and the father of a 3-year-old who died in the blast.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Arbus used her camera, Sontag wrote, as a “kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions, freeing the photographer from any responsibility toward the people photographed.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

Meanwhile, deforestation, which annihilates the fungi along with their host trees, disrupts this whole underground, climate change-fighting ecosystem.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2022

Also, this sort of farming annihilates the soil.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir