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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 destructionannihilative - wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
annihilating, withering, devastating
destructive - causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
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The reader, along with some of Lawrence's central figures here, wants to escape from a hostile world, wants not to confront its annihilative power yet must go forward to encounter its underworld faces and forms.
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Some traumas are so overwhelmingly intrusive that a state of annihilative nonbeing or temporary oblivion caused by the withdrawal of soul becomes necessary.
Soul migrations: traumatic and spiritual by Zimberoff, Diane / Journal of Heart Centered Therapies
 
 
 
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