verb
- Kill in large numbers.
- usage: "the plague wiped out an entire population"
- synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
adjective
- Wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction.
- usage: "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
- synonyms: 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
- synonyms: devastating, withering
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