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annihilative

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an·ni·hi·la·tive  (-n-ltv, --l-)
adj.
Capable of causing utter destruction or serving to destroy utterly: "The possession of annihilative power has not slowed down the drive toward even more fiendish modes of inflicting wholesale death" (Saturday Review).
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Adj.1.annihilative - wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
destructive - causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"


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What we recognize above all is a broken world and broken sensibilities impelled by the annihilative effects of war on both the human consciousness and the human soul.
[1] Together these twin terrors constitute the annihilative anxiety fundamental to all being: the fear that the self will disintegrate.
 
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