Destruction, ruin; detriment, loss. Cf. aneantize, v.

The action of destroying a person or thing; the fact of being destroyed; destruction; annihilation; eradication. Now rare.

Annihilation, complete destruction.

Extermination.

Originally Scottish. Cancellation, annulment; the act of rendering or declaring a law, status, etc., null. Obsolete.

The action or process of reducing a person or thing to nothing or of wiping a someone or something out of existence; total or effective destruction…

Putting an end to, total extirpation; utter destruction.

Law. The action of rendering something null or of no effect. Obsolete.

The action of annihilate, v. (in various senses); the fact of being annihilated; total destruction, annihilation. Also: an instance of this.

figurative. A great destruction or downfall; an act of wholesale or ruthless destruction.

Annihilation (of the soul). Obsolete.

= extinction, n.

A wiping out, removal. Obsolete.

The action of blotting (a living being, a soul) out of existence; destruction, annihilation.

The action or process of unmaking something; destruction; an instance of this.

Reduction to nothing; annihilation. rare.

The undoing of creation; depriving of existence; annihilation.

Total destruction; ‘wiping out’. rare.

blotting out: obliteration of writing, etc.; also, effacement, destruction, annihilation.

Effacement; annihilation. Cf. noughting, n.1, self-naughting, n.

Destruction, annihilation; a killing; a crushing defeat; an overwhelming experience. slang (originally U.S.).