"annihilating" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more annihilating [comparative], most annihilating [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} annihilating (comparative more annihilating, superlative most annihilating)
  1. Causing annihilation; devastating. Derived forms: annihilatingly
    Sense id: en-annihilating-en-adj-kpfqDmBN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} annihilating
  1. present participle and gerund of annihilate Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: annihilate
    Sense id: en-annihilating-en-verb-4ln4DMcl
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          "ref": "1841, “Lorenzo Stark: Or, A German Merchant of the Old School”, in The Monthly Chronicle, volume 2, page 530:",
          "text": "The Doctor received a very unfriendly, and the godson, who stood as if turned to stone, a very annihilating glance.",
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          "ref": "1866, Stopford Augustus Brooke, Life and Letters of F. W. Robertson, page 257:",
          "text": "The thought of time, to me at least, is a very overpowering and often a very annihilating one for energy: Time rushing on, unbroken, irresistible, hurrying the worlds and the ages into being, and out of it, and making our 'noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal Silence.'",
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          "ref": "2009, Harold C. Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare, page 78:",
          "text": "Cold revenge is the union of intellect and hate — the most annihilating of all alliances.",
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          "ref": "2012, Didier Franck, Nietzsche and the Shadow of God, page 73:",
          "text": "Nietzsche adds: \"I found that God is the most annihilating and hostile to life of all thoughts; and it is only through the enormous obscurity of the dear pious ones and the metaphysicians of all time that knowledge of this 'truth' had so long to be awaited.”",
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