annihilation

annihilation
n
1. butchery, carnage, slaughter, wholesale or general slaughter, wholesale killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction, blood bath, decimation, liquidation, blotting or wiping out, genocide, pogrom, holocaust, Euph., Hist.Final Solution; murder, killing, slaying, cutting down, mowing down, Sl. mopping up, assassination, execution, deathblow, finishing stroke, killing blow; razing, gutting, leveling, blasting, smashing, dismantling.
2. extermination, obliteration, extinction, utter or total destruction, discreation, eradication, effacement, dissolution, disestablishment, elimination, extirpation, undoing, end, Sl. curtains, abolition, extinguishment; ravagement, devastation, ruination, desolation, demolition, wreckage.
3. invalidation, voidance, cancellation, annulment, nullification, retraction, repeal, rescindment, countermand, revocation, withdrawal, abrogation, suppression.

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  • annihilation — index abolition, assassination, demise (death), destruction, dissolution (termination), homicide …   Law dictionary

  • annihilation — ANNIHILATION. s. f. (On pron. les N.) Terme didactique. Anéantissement …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

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