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deu: vernichten

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Meaning
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) 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) eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
sweep away, wipe out
means(verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
decimate
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) 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) 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) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"
destruct, destroy
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) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
mow down, massacre, slaughter
means(verb) ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"
bust, break
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) smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"
wreck, bust up, wrack
means(verb) end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
kill, stamp out
means(verb) remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
wipe out, erase
means(verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
obliterate, obscure, veil, blot out, hide
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) destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
kill
means(verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
extinguish, eradicate, eliminate, wipe out, carry off, annihilate, decimate
means(verb) pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
root out, deracinate, extirpate, uproot
means(verb) do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
abolish, get rid of
means(verb) wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
wipe out, cancel out
means(verb) remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
efface, obliterate
means(verb) put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
extinguish, snuff out
means(verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace
obliterate
means(verb) defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"
destroy, demolish
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

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