annihilate vs thrash

annihilate

verb
  • To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate. 

  • To render null and void; to abrogate. 

  • To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos). 

thrash

verb
  • To defeat utterly. 

  • To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result. 

  • In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system. 

  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour. 

  • To beat mercilessly. 

  • To thresh. 

noun
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating. 

  • thrash metal 

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