annihilate
verb (used with object)
to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly.
is annihilating
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present progressiveof annihilate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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As infatuation consumed her, van den Heever summoned the tonal amplitude to fill out Wagner’s portrait of a love that is annihilating in its totality.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
But knowing, in that immediate and unmediated way, what people thought about my writing felt . . . the word I keep reaching for, even though it seems melodramatic, is annihilating.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 10, 2019
In an age when the megamovie blitz is annihilating the art film and the B film, such expert devotion to the banquet of cinema culture deserves a wider audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
This idea is annihilating; I feel it, but I shall not willingly occasion sorrow to any one.
From Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
That is the first stage in the abolition of the lakes: the mud is annihilating them.
From Science in Arcady by Grant Allen
