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(v)
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
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(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
(transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
(transitive, idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
(loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
(transitive) To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
(transitive) To remove (markings or information).
(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
(n)
The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
(transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
To reverse the effects of an action.
(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
(transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
To overpower emotionally.
To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
(transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
(transitive) To erase or strike out.
Misspelling of annihilate. [To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.]
(transitive) To undo the act of creating.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
(transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
(obsolete) To annul.
(intransitive) To annihilate each other.
(transitive) To get rid of totally; to eradicate.
(rare, transitive) To bring into existence from nothing.
(transitive) To reduce to, or treat as, nothing; to eliminate or disregard entirely.
(transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
To kill as a sacrifice by burning.
(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
A nuclear weapon.
(transitive) To eat.
(transitive) To consign to oblivion; to destroy or erase utterly.
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.
(transitive, literally) To remove (something such as dirt) by wiping.
(transitive) To remove or abolish completely.
(idiomatic, transitive) To overwhelm someone emotionally; sweep someone off their feet.
(transitive) To obscure.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
(transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
(transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
(transitive, obsolete or nonstandard) To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
(transitive) To send to oblivion; to destroy or eliminate.
(transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
(computing, transitive) To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.
(transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
(transitive) To erase; to revert to a state where (something) was never written.
(by extension) (figuratively) Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
(uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
(transitive, idiomatic) To terminate or abolish.
(chiefly medicine, surgery) To cut out.
An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
(by extension, figurative) To eliminate.
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
(transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.
(programming, transitive) To destroy or annul (an instance of something); to eliminate (a variable, object, etc.) that was created earlier.
(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
(intransitive, rare, poetic) To lack being; to be nonexistent.
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
(informal) A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
To annul, do away with; to cancel.
Something calcined; also, material left over after burning or roasting.
To tip or turn over.
(transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
(transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
(transitive) To reduce or remove the population of.
To annihilate oneself by one's own act.
(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
(rare, transitive) To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.
(transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
(transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
(archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin.
To hit or collide with
Alternative form of suck the air out of.
(idiomatic, transitive) To completely demolish, to raze.
To steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To fail completely; to have no successful result.
(transitive) To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
An end; the end of anything.