transitive. To destroy, blot out, erase; also figurative.

figurative. To blot out of existence, memory, thought, etc.; to extinguish.

transitive. To annihilate, extinguish, destroy (a person or thing).

transitive. To annihilate, destroy (a person or thing); to ruin, bring low. Cf. aneantize, v.

transitive. To reduce or return to nothing. Obsolete. rare.

= extinguish, v. 3.

transitive. To annihilate (in various senses). See annihilate, v.

transitive. To destroy (a person or thing); to annihilate; to eradicate; to kill. rare in later use.

transitive. To exterminate.

transitive. To destroy completely.

transitive. To extinguish.

To put a total end to, do away with completely, blot out of existence.

figurative. To efface, wipe out of existence, sight, or memory; to annihilate, destroy. (Usually with out.)

(from 2.) To clear away, remove: most commonly with adverb (away, off, out). To destroy the trace of, obliterate, efface; to destroy the effect or…

to cut the throat of: to ruin; to bring about the defeat or downfall of; to put an end to. Similarly to cut one's own throat: to be the means of…

transitive. To reduce (a person or thing) to nothing. Later chiefly: to wipe (a person, ethnic or religious group, organism, etc.) out of…

transitive. To disintegrate and reduce to atoms, dust, smoke, or impalpable form; to destroy or dissolve completely, undo, annul (material or…

transitive. To destroy (an immaterial thing); to put an end to, do away with, extinguish.

transitive. To render (a thing, action, undertaking, etc.) of no value, use, or efficacy; to reduce to nothing, to cancel out. Also occasionally in…

transitive. To bring to nothing; to destroy.

figurative. To wipe out, efface, annihilate, annul, destroy, put an end to.

transitive. To reduce to nothing; to consider or treat as worthless or unimportant.

transitive. To reduce to nothing, annihilate; to destroy or efface completely. Now rare (literary in later use).

transitive. To put out of the universe.

transitive. To reduce to nothing, annihilate.

transferred. To destroy utterly. rare.

transitive. To destroy completely; to devastate, demolish, or lay waste; to eradicate, annihilate.

transitive. To envelop or destroy like a simoom.

in, into shreds: in or into small fragments. to tear to shreds (also, shred by shred): to rend into small pieces; figurative to destroy, annihilate.

With out. To eclipse, efface, wipe out; to terminate (life).

transitive. colloquial. With up. To make an end of, finish off (an opponent, prey, etc.); to take care of the completion of (a task, mission, etc.)…

transitive. slang. To dispose of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing); to destroy or obliterate (a specific target); to kill, murder; to…

transitive. To finish; spec. to kill, destroy.

transitive. Chiefly Theology (Christian Church and Buddhism) and poetic. To bring to nothing; to annihilate. Cf. nought, v. 3. rare.