| means | (verb) terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
eliminate, extinguish, do away with, get rid of |
| means | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
waste, lay waste to, ravage, desolate, scourge, devastate |
| means | (verb) destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"
pulverise, pulverize, demolish |
| means | (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
erase, delete |
| means | (verb) end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
kill, stamp out |
| means | (verb) eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
sweep away, wipe out |
| means | (verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"
ruin, destroy |
| means | (verb) smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"
wreck, bust up, wrack |
| means | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
harry, ravage |
| means | (verb) destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
devour |
| means | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
violate, despoil, rape, plunder, spoil |
| means | (verb) destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
consume |
| means | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
exterminate, kill off |
| means | (verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
decimate |
| means | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
neutralise, liquidate, do in, waste, neutralize, knock off |
| means | (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
eradicate, uproot, root out, extirpate, exterminate |
| means | (verb) cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
kill |
| means | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"
destruct, destroy |
| means | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
dispatch, polish off, slay, bump off, hit, off, murder, remove |
| means | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces
disassemble, break apart, dismantle, break up, take apart |
| means | (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
dismantle, raze, rase, pull down, level, tear down, take down |
| means | (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
weaken, subvert, countermine, undermine, sabotage, counteract |
| means | (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"
destruct |
| means | (verb) defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"
destroy, demolish |
| means | (verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
extinguish, eradicate, eliminate, wipe out, carry off, annihilate, decimate |
| means | (verb) inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
damage |
| means | (verb) remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
wipe out, erase |
| means | (verb) humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
crush, demolish, smash |
| means | (verb) do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
abolish, get rid of |
| means | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
botch, spoil, foul up, ball up, fluff, bollocks up, screw up, fuck up, mess up, bungle, louse up, fumble, muck up, bobble, flub, bodge, bollix, botch up, bollix up, bollocks, mishandle, muff, blow, bumble |
| means | (verb) make inactive; "they deactivated the file"
inactivate, deactivate |
| means | (verb) put (an animal) to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down"
destroy, put down |
| means | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
efface, obliterate |
| means | (verb) deprive of certain characteristics
undo, unmake |
| means | (verb) damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
bang up, smash up, smash |
| means | (verb) win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
overcome, get the better of, defeat |
| means | (verb) destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
kill |