annihilate
verb (used with object)
to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly.
annihilates
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present tense formof annihilate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
