Annihilate is an English word with synonyms like eliminate or extinguish. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Annihilate meaning
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
- To treat as worthless, to vilify.
Synonyms of Annihilate
Using Annihilate
- The main meaning on this page is: To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate. | To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos). | To treat as worthless, to vilify.
- Useful related words include: eliminate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out.
- In the example corpus, annihilate often appears in combinations such as: to annihilate, and annihilate, annihilate the.
Context around Annihilate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Annihilate
- In this selection, "annihilate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, completely, acosta, hamas, houyan and mexican stand out and add context to how "annihilate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acting to annihilate hamas saying and and to annihilate. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "annihilate" sits close to words such as aborigines, abreu and accommodates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with annihilate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Is his ‘mission’ in Gaza really intended to annihilate Hamas? (10 words)
We are facing an enemy who wants to annihilate all Jews. (11 words)
They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it. (12 words)
In Grammars of Creation, he wrote of his “astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to love, to build, to forgive, and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate”. (39 words)
Rather than blow its finite budget on things like the F-35 and more aircraft carriers, then, the US Navy must lead the way in long-range strike weapons that can annihilate A2/AD networks. (35 words)
Israel launched its campaign to annihilate Gaza's Hamas rulers after their fighters burst into Israeli towns on October 7, killing 1200 people and taking 240 hostage, according to Israeli tallies. (31 words)
For someone so fascinated by the very beasts she is supposed to annihilate, what end is more fitting than dying with them? (22 words)
Is his ‘mission’ in Gaza really intended to annihilate Hamas? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it.
A narrator calls for strength to "annihilate" 's enemies, as portentous music plays in the background.
For someone so fascinated by the very beasts she is supposed to annihilate, what end is more fitting than dying with them?
Gwanggaeto vows to turn Yeon Salta’s sacrifice into a rallying cry to annihilate Houyan.
He would not spend another dollar on aid to but would use military force to “annihilate” Mexican drug cartels.
Israel launched its campaign to annihilate Gaza's Hamas rulers after their fighters burst into Israeli towns on October 7, killing 1200 people and taking 240 hostage, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel says it is acting to annihilate Hamas, saying it poses a mortal threat to the Jewish state’s very existence.
The international target on his head has reached new heights, and a new Marquis is attempting to annihilate him and his affiliates on behalf of The High Table.
They support Hamas in its desire to eliminate Israel from the face of the world and to annihilate Jews.
We are facing an enemy who wants to annihilate all Jews.
As you infiltrate large open levels and annihilate enemies with your squad, use your comms to dispatch orders that are swiftly obeyed by the Marine best-equipped for the situation.
Genocide is to annihilate a people physically and morally, to erase people’s hopes and dreams.
He hasn't achieved his goals to kill the Hamas leadership or annihilate Hamas," he added.
Is his ‘mission’ in Gaza really intended to annihilate Hamas?
Rather than blow its finite budget on things like the F-35 and more aircraft carriers, then, the US Navy must lead the way in long-range strike weapons that can annihilate A2/AD networks.
That the drive to annihilate Israel necessarily threatens the existence of all Jews, including herself, obviously does not occur to her.
Watch CNN's Jim Acosta annihilate the Harris campaign for running from the media and tell me her strategy isn't backfiring.
Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.
Here, a young English girl (whose dad has been sent, by Oliver Cromwell, to annihilate Ireland’s last “pack”) goes loopy for all things lupine.
In Grammars of Creation, he wrote of his “astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to love, to build, to forgive, and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate”.
Common combinations with annihilate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: