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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of causing utter destruction or serving to destroy utterly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tending to annihilate; destructive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving to annihilate; destructive.

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  • adjective Serving to annihilate; destructive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

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Examples

  • Demonstrating warp-drive capacity—which really amounts to little more than sustaining and harnessing the mutually annihilative reaction of matter and antimatter, as the Hranrarii have done—is what determines whether a culture has attained warp capability.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • Demonstrating warp-drive capacity—which really amounts to little more than sustaining and harnessing the mutually annihilative reaction of matter and antimatter, as the Hranrarii have done—is what determines whether a culture has attained warp capability.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • Demonstrating warp-drive capacity—which really amounts to little more than sustaining and harnessing the mutually annihilative reaction of matter and antimatter, as the Hranrarii have done—is what determines whether a culture has attained warp capability.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • JH, Iran is a hyper-aggressive, annihilative, nuclear-armed theocratic Islamic regime in the Middle East.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • JH, Iran is a hyper-aggressive, annihilative, nuclear-armed theocratic Islamic regime in the Middle East.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Indeed, their very power has made their use intolerable, even unthinkable, because of the annihilative retaliation in kind that such use would invoke.

    Lester Bowles Pearson - Nobel Lecture 1957

  • And now she remembered that she had an annihilative weapon against him ....

    V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • It is wonderful that any man could have, in the space of eight days, written, with his own hand, so fiery an invective, so compelling of the attention of any reader, so completely annihilative of his antagonist's pretensions and contentions, so convincingly establishing his own: to have made of it, in the course of composition so rapid and totally unrevised, such a jewel of

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

  • For the coexistence of absolute spontaneity with absolute necessity is involved in the very idea of God, one of whose intellectual definitions is, the 'synthesis, generative ad extra, et annihilative, etsi inclusive, quoad se,' of all conceivable 'antitheses;' even as the best moral definition -- (and, O! how much more godlike to us in this state of antithetic intellect is the moral beyond the intellectual!) -- is, God is love.

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

  • (PTI) R Ashwin bowled a virulent opening spell before Suresh Raina played an annihilative

    WN.com - Articles related to Hughes can be Australia's Virender Sehwag: Ponting 2010

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