What is "annihilatory"

Usage examples of "annihilatory".

And this process of annihilatory punishment, occurring in public and in all ears at once, was so fearful and dreadful that no one could resist it.

So because of Kerri, we won and the Imdlemodin dictatorship with its annihilatory practices was destroyed.

An annihilatory destruct would rip the planet in half and so antagonise the Dra'Azon.

Then there came rumours, through some of the refugee craft of neutrals fleeing the hostilities, of a knot of Idiran fleets swarming round a volume of space near a recent raid location on the very outskirts of the galaxy, followed by a furious battle culminating in a gigantic annihilatory explosion, whose signature, when it was finally picked up and analysed, was exactly that produced when a beleaguered military GSV of the Culture had had time to orchestrate a maximally extraneously damaging destruct sequence.