The Collaborative International Dictionary
annihilating \annihilating\ adj. criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.
Syn: devastating, withering.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of annihilate English)
WordNet
adj. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, devastating, withering]
making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: devastating, withering]
Usage examples of "annihilating".
Oghma the Wise viewed her as a young sage, while Talos the Destroyer saw her as an annihilating whirlwind of magic that left havoc wherever she went.
According to his theories, the elixir would have excellent properties for annihilating the aristocracy and giving the universe to the poor.
They let their separate selves burn away like so many thousands of matches, annihilating themselves in an all-consuming transcendence.
The turning point to Civilization was marked by Napoleon, the herald of absolute war and politics, but this tradition continued so strong that in the French War against Prussia, 1870-1871, victorious Prussia still did not think of annihilating the totally defeated foe, nor of subjecting it to an endless military occupation, but contented itself with reincorporating two provinces and imposing an indemnity which was paid off in a few years.
Its intense gravity had pulled many stars down toward its centre, pulled them apart into leptons and photons, annihilating them.
A few of these might rekindle their passion for a while, but most would look for easier ways of annihilating the longing inside them.
We have seen that the uncertainty principle ensures that even the vacuum of empty space is a teeming, roiling frenzy of virtual particles momentarily erupting into existence and subsequently annihilating one another.
England and Russia prevented Bismarck from annihilating France in 1875, an incident which aroused justified fear throughout France and gave an impulse to the revenge party.
Yet, when he was away from me, he spent much of the time savouring the most annihilating remorse.
He wanted to destroy them all, so that he would feel less lonely, and, in order to penetrate this absence with his annihilating presence, he left the jeep behind at a forgotten township where a green track ended and an ancient whisky priest sat all day in the ruins of a forsaken church brewing fire-water from wild bananas and keening the stations of the cross.
By annihilating the other, I preserve not only myself, but the collective or group that contains me.
I personally designed the antimatter trap that is keeping that sample from annihilating right now.
Behind these small ships, the overlapped shields of the foremost ballistas flickered imperceptibly in precise timing as they launched a volley of defensive projectile fire, driving back the first robot assault, annihilating many of the machine suicide ships before they could get through.
Waves of incinerating nuclear energy rushed over the machine city, a dazzling glare from round after round of annihilating nuclear bursts.
But out there, the ships were real, capable of annihilating Corrin in yet another atomic attack, once they passed the Bridge and killed all the hostages aboard.