Synonyms for annihilation
an·ni·hi·la·tion

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1. annihilation, obliterationnoun

   destruction by annihilating something

   Synonyms:
   disintegration, eradication, obliteration

2. annihilation, disintegrationnoun

   total destruction

   "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"

   Synonyms:
   disintegration, decomposition, radioactive decay, dissolution, decay, obliteration

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1. • Destruction

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1. List of paraphrases for "annihilation":

   extermination, destruction, obliteration, genocide, extinction

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1. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   There's no question that the Holocaust was about race. That's how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries, with deliberate and ruthless cruelty.

2. Jonar Nader:

   Those who construct loyalty programs through frequent-flyer points and the like, are merely trying to trap the customer. Loyalty must come naturally, not via points and schemes. If your customers are loyal to you as a result of such programs, then surely you realize that they are not loyal. Such schemes are tangible, and tangible things are susceptible to the law of annihilation. Anything that you do, can be matched by your competitor.

3. Albert Einstein:

   We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

4. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized anti-Semitism.

5. Marquis de Sade:

   For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.