'annihilation' definitions:
Definition of 'annihilation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Destruction by annihilating something [syn: annihilation, obliteration]
noun
Total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll" [syn: annihilation, disintegration]
Synonyms of 'annihilation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abscission,
- amputation,
- annulment,
- bane,
- biological death,
- cessation of life,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clinical death,
- crossing the bar,
- curtains,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- demise,
- departure,
- deracination,
- destruction,
- dissolution,
- doom,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- elimination,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- eradication,
- eternal rest,
- excision,
- exclusion,
- exit,
- expiration,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- hand of death,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- leaving life,
- liquidation,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- mutilation,
- negation,
- nullification,
- parting,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- perishing,
- purge,
- quietus,
- release,
- rescission,
- rest,
- reward,
- rooting out,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- silencing,
- sleep,
- snuffing out,
- somatic death,
- stifling,
- strangulation,
- suffocation,
- summons of death,
- suppression,
- uprooting,
- voiding