transitive. To cast down (a person or group of people) from a position of influence, prosperity, etc. Also: to defeat, conquer, overcome; to ruin…

transferred. To arrest or defeat utterly, discomfit. In modern use, often: to defeat or frustrate the ‘game’ or scheme of (any one) by a…

to bringor put to (or unto) utterance, to overcome completely, vanquish thoroughly; to bring to ruin or subjection, put to death. Obsolete.

transitive. To strip or plunder; hence, to defeat, rout. Also figurative.

figurative. To break down the strength or power of; to conquer beyond resistance, subdue or overcome completely.

transitive. Scottish. To crush; to defeat utterly. Obsolete. rare.

To ‘do’ or ‘do for’; to get the better of; to make an end of. Obsolete.

To complete the destruction of; to dispatch, kill. Also in weaker sense: To complete the discomfiture or defeat of; to reduce to complete…

To quiet with a blow; to knock down dead or stunned; to finish, ‘do for’.

To ‘do for’, ‘settle the business of’; = fake, v.2 1a.

transitive. To defeat in an argument by using incontrovertible reasoning, sophistry, etc.

transitive. To deal with in such a way as to confound or overcome completely; to treat or handle roughly or severely; to crush, destroy.

Hence figurative (colloquial or slang). To bowl (a person) out, over, down.

colloquial and regional (esp. Scottish and U.S.). to settle a person's hash: to cause the downfall or end of a person; to silence or subdue a person.

transitive. slang. To ‘do for’, defeat completely, ruin; to cheat, circumvent.

To defeat utterly; to crush completely; to overcome, overwhelm, or destroy.

In phrases and proverbial sayings. all (his) geese are swans: he invariably exaggerates or over-estimates; so to turn geese into swans, every goose a…

(transitive) to smite as with thunder, to discomfit utterly.

colloquial. To defeat, ruin, destroy, put an end to.

to put the bee on (slang, chiefly U.S.): (a) to quash, put an end to; to beat; (b) to ask for a loan from, to borrow money from (cf. sting, v.1 2e).

transitive. To render useless; to put out of action, thwart. Also, to kill, destroy; to defeat or outwit. Now chiefly as past participle.

to wrap up (figurative). transitive. To put an end to, bring to completion; also, to defeat; to wrap it up, to stop doing something. slang.

transitive. Australian slang. To ruin, mess up; to exhaust, tire out. Cf. to bugger up at bugger, v. phrasal verbs 1. Usually in passive.

transitive. To batter or destroy (a person or thing); to ruin; to confound, stymie.

transitive. To thrash; to crush or destroy. Also figurative: to defeat decisively.