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annihilate, v. 1. exterminate, obliterate, discreate, reduce to nothing, eradicate, erase, blot orwipe out, SI.mop up, efface, dissolve, eliminate, extirpate, destroy totally, decimate, liquidate, massacre, kill off, slaughter, butcher, mow down; undo, cut off, put an end to, abolish, extinguish, quench, quash; raze, level, tear to the ground, ravage, gut, blast, devastate, ruin, desolate, demolish, wreck, smash, dismantle, lay in ruins; kill, murder, slay, SI.rub out, cut down, put to death, execute, do to death, put to the sword, destroy, assassinate; uproot, root out, deracinate, Obs.over-runcate.
2. invalidate, void, cancel, annul, nullify, retract, repeal, rescind, countermand, revoke, withdraw, abrogate, suppress.
3. trounce, trample, thrash, defeat thoroughly orutterly, rout, overwhelm, discomfit, humble, tread or trample underfoot, SI.wipe the floor with, vanquish, conquer; crush, break, smash.
annihilation, n.1. butchery, carnage, slaughter, wholesale orgeneral slaughter, wholesale killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction, blood bath, decimation, liquidation, blotting orwiping out, genocide, pogrom, holocaust, Euph., Hist.
Final Solution; murder, killing, slaying, cutting down, mowing down, SI.mopping up, assassination, execution, deathblow, finishing stroke, killing blow; razing, gutting, leveling, blasting, smashing, dismantling.
2. extermination, obliteration, extinction, utter or total destruction, discreation, eradication, effacement, dissolution, disestablishment, elimination, extirpation, undoing, end, SI.curtains, abolition, extinguishment; ravagement, devastation, ruination, desolation, demolition, wreckage.
3. invalidation, voidance, cancellation, annulment, nullification, retraction, repeal, rescindment, countermand, revocation, withdrawal, abrogation, suppression.
anniversary, n.1. birthday, red-letter day, Fr. anniversaire;
centennial, centenary, bicentennial, Chiefly Brit,
bicentenary.
2. jubilee, celebration, commemoration, fete.
-adj.
3. annual, yearly, Chiefly Brit,
twelve-monthly; centennial, bicentennial.
annotate, v. gloss, Archaic, gloze, note, footnote, interline, interlineate; elucidate, explain, illustrate, construe, expound; comment, remark upon, commentate, interpret.
annotation, n.1. notes, footnotes, gloss, glossary, appendix, scholium, marginalia, remarks; commentary, explanation, exegesis, exposition, elucidation, illustration, interpretation.
2. commenting, remarking on, making notes, supplying with notes.
annotator, n.glossarist, scholiast; commentator, explainer, expositer, expounder, interpreter.
announce, v. 1. proclaim, promulgate, declare, Scot. and North Eng.
kithe, call out; trumpet, herald, blazon, voice abroad, bruit; publish, print, Archaic. divulgate, reveal, disclose; publicize, placard, advertize, bill, bulletin, post; circulate, disseminate.
2. tell, state, inform, notify, give notice, apprise, signal; harbinger, usher in, state the approach of.
announcement, n.1. proclamation, pronunciamen-to, promulgation, declaration, annunciation; decree, ordinance, edict, rescript; statement, enunciation, recital.
2. publication, revelation, disclosure, Archaic. divulgation; broadcast, bulletin, report, communique, information, news, tidings, word; cable, wire, telegram; letter, missive, card.
3. message, commercial, advertisement, placard; broadside, leaflet, pamphlet, handbill, bill, brochure, flier.
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