annihilation

But in fellow Brit Steve McQueen’s muscular, sincere “Blitz,” his latest reckoning with the heartbeat of historical incident, life under the threat of annihilation pulsates a little more strongly than that beloved phrase would suggest.

Israel, he said, had no choice but to fight savage enemies who sought its annihilation.

Warning Israeli-Americans that they are putting themselves in “danger” by not voting for him, Trump added that Israel will face “total annihilation” should Harris be elected president.

On July 31, 1395, the Duke of Burgundy declared a war of annihilation on an "evil and disloyal" enemy and invader: a purple, acidic grape known as "Gamay."

DeLillo’s prose often summons this kind of music, whether he’s writing about nuclear annihilation or the Zapruder film or mass media or Hitler’s sex life.