[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Reducing to nought, destroying: crushing.
1816. Byron, Corinth, xxiv. That annihilating voice, Which pierces the deep hills through and through.
1865. Wilkie Collins, in Cornh. Mag., June, 655. With that annihilating answer the major’s daughter put up her parasol and walked back by herself to the boat.
