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annihilate
1. v. To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
2. v. (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
3. v. (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
4. v. To render null and void; to abrogate.

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You say that we have enough weapons which could be released at a moment's notice to annihilate the entire country and all of its population.

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