a. [f. L. annihilāt- (see ANNIHIL) + -IVE.] Such as to annihilate; destructive, crushing.
1836. Blackw. Mag., XL. 255/2. Darkness [seems] … suppressive or annihilative of life.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., VII. xviii. iii. 129. Victory at Prag considered to be much more annihilative than it really was.
