- present participle of annihilate.
annihilating
Example Sentences
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The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates their triumph roughly 2,500 years ago over a minister to the king bent on annihilating the empire’s Jews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
But Ginsberg cautioned that dehumanization “didn't propose a compassion or tenderness or mutual involvement or Buddha nature as an alternative. It proposed a complete annihilating void and nothingness.”
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
This can see insect species proliferate, annihilating many plant species.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
It’s a new position that requires different footwork, hand-and-eye coordination and other techniques all while trying to keep strong and speedy edge rushers from annihilating their quarterback.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century.
From "1984" by George Orwell
