Annihilate and Create

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Annihilate verb - To destroy all traces of.

Usage example: the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success

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Create is an antonym for annihilate in destroy completely topic.

Nearby Words: annihilation, annihilating

Create verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Annihilate is an antonym for create in make topic.

life	annihilate life	create life
people	annihilate people	create people
race	annihilate race	create race
system	annihilate system	create system
Other words: army, universe, world, empire, objects, machines, monsters.

It can cause large explosions and create warped dimensional spaces with great enough pressure to annihilate anything.

Source: Manga / Rave Master
In Final Fantasy XII, the Undying rips chunks of Sky Fortress Bahamut to create his own body, and smashes the hell out of the fortress while trying to annihilate the party.

Source: Load-Bearing Boss
Which is a lot trickier to destroy and create the Bridge, requiring something on the order of a nuclear blast to annihilate.

Source: Genius Loci

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