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Annihilate vs Carnage - What's the difference?

annihilate | carnage |

As a verb annihilate

is to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

As a noun carnage is

death and destruction.

annihilate

English

Verb

(annihilat)
  • To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
    • An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
  • (label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
  • (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
  • *, II.17:
    • of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.

    Synonyms

    * (to reduce to nothing) benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish * See also

    Antonyms

    * (to reduce to nothing) create, generate

    Related terms

    () * annihilation * annihilative * annihilator * annihilable * annul * null * nullify * nihilism * nihilist

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    carnage

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Death and destruction.
  • What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
  • Any chaotic situation.
  • * 2014 , Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
    • The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.

    Synonyms

    * bloodbath * massacre

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