withering

  • (s) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
    • possessing annihilative power
    • a devastating hurricane
    • the guns opened a withering fire
    annihilating, annihilative, devastating,
  • (s) making light of
    • afire with annihilating invective
    • a devastating portrait of human folly
    • to compliments inflated I've a withering reply - W.S.Gilbert
    devastating, annihilating,

Nouns

  • (n) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) atrophy,

Synonyms

annihilating annihilative devastating atrophy

Words of close approximity

witheringly