Annihilating
Annihilating adjective - Wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction.
Destructive and annihilating are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Annihilating".
Destructive
Destructive adjective - Causing destruction or much damage.
Usage example: destructive criticism
Annihilating and destructive are semantically related. You can use "Annihilating" instead an adjective "Destructive".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- crushing and annihilating
- crushing and destructive
- disastrous and annihilating
- disastrous and destructive
- calamitous and annihilating
- calamitous and destructive
- injurious and annihilating
- injurious and destructive
- harmful and annihilating
- harmful and destructive
- damaging and annihilating
- damaging and destructive
- ruinous and annihilating
- ruinous and destructive
Both words in one sentence
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Excalibur the Sword of Promised Victory, Saber's weapon, can release blasts of destructive power capable of annihilating entire buildings.
Source: Sword Beam -
He will often devise a weapon capable of annihilating whole armies or destroying mountains, but is naive enough to believe that no one would build or use such a destructive weapon.
Source: It Will Never Catch On -
Durstan, Stan Lee's Author Avatar, in the manga Karakuridouji Ultimo, created two highly-destructive robotic embodiments of good and evil, with weaponry capable of annihilating cities if not nations, all because he was curious which force was stronger.
Source: For Science!
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