annihilative

annihilative
an·ni·hi·la·tive (ə-nīʹə-lā'tĭv, -ə-lə-) 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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