Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Annihilating; tending to annihilate or destroy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Annihilative.
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- adjective Causing
annihilation .
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Examples
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Despite calls in its annual New Year's message for a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, the North, which has conducted two nuclear tests since 2006, also said its military was ready for "prompt, merciless and annihilatory action" against its enemies.
North Korea Calls For Better Ties With Warning By KIM KWANG-TAE 2011
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Despite calls in its annual New Year's message for a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, the communist North, which has conducted two nuclear tests since 2006, also said its military is ready for "prompt, merciless and annihilatory action" against its enemies.
North Korea Warns War Would Bring 'Nuclear Holocaust' AP 2011
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Despite calls in its annual New Year's message for a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, the communist North, which has conducted two nuclear tests since 2006, also said its military is ready for "prompt, merciless and annihilatory action" against its enemies.
North Korea Warns War Would Bring 'Nuclear Holocaust' AP 2011
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Despite calls in its annual New Year's message for a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, the North, which has conducted two nuclear tests since 2006, also said its military was ready for "prompt, merciless and annihilatory action" against its enemies.
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Despite calls in its annual New Year's message for a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, the communist North, which has conducted two nuclear tests since 2006, also said its military was ready for "prompt, merciless and annihilatory action" against its enemies.
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Summoning evil into the world to fight evil is still evil and, with weapons that are so permanently toxic, so indiscriminate in their annihilatory capacity, and so costly in every way, the permanent evil of building these omnicidal weapons outranks all transitory evils they are meant to destroy.
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That is why people in Britain, America and elsewhere cannot grasp the significance of Mumbai; that is why they bay against America's alleged ‘crimes’ of self-defence against those who wish to murder American citizens; that is why they persist in viewing Israel, the six decade-long target of annihilatory aggression, as the oppressor in the region.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Do they really believe that, after sixty years of living under siege from the annihilatory Arab onslaught, Israel actually wants more of the same?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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That is why people in Britain, America and elsewhere cannot grasp the significance of Mumbai; that is why they bay against America's alleged ‘crimes’ of self-defence against those who wish to murder American citizens; that is why they persist in viewing Israel, the six decade-long target of annihilatory aggression, as the oppressor in the region.
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Do they really believe that, after sixty years of living under siege from the annihilatory Arab onslaught, Israel actually wants more of the same?
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