To destroy; to bring to naught; to do away with; to take away, remove. Now rare.

To destroy, ruin, bring to destruction. Also, in milder sense, to injure, damage, spoil.

transitive. To cause to perish, destroy.

To put an end to, cause to cease, abrogate, destroy; formerly also to dissolve (a parliament).

transitive. To put an end to, abolish, destroy, undo. Cf. to do away with. Now literary.

figurative. To extinguish, put an end to.

To bring to spiritual death; to destroy with sin. Obsolete.

To destroy, extinguish, put an end to, suppress completely (esp. something bad). Cf. kill, v. 4.

transitive. To put an end to; to stop.

To ruin, destroy, bring to nought: = lose, v.1 2. (Cf. Latin perdĕre to destroy, and to lose.)

to confound, ruin utterly.

transitive. To beat down or away; figurative to put an end to. Obsolete.

transitive. To quench, extinguish; figurative to put a stop to, blot out.

transitive. To disgrace, dishonour, insult; to destroy, cause to perish.

transitive. To destroy; to bring to ruin or perdition; to spoil. = Latin perdere.

To destroy, annihilate, put an end to (something immaterial, e.g. sin, sorrow). Also with away. Obsolete.

To put an end to (strife, enmity, rebellion, or any mischievous agency or condition). Obsolete.

transitive. To bring to naught, destroy, mar, spoil, render useless.

To bring to nought, put an end to; to do away with, annihilate (any institution, condition, state, quality, or thing immaterial).

transitive. To set aside, renounce, abjure; to dismiss from one's mind. Formerly also: †to abolish, reject, put an end to (obsolete).

To cause to vanish or disappear from existence; to bring to nought, undo, destroy, consume.

transitive. To ruin or foil, upset (a design, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To ruin or destroy utterly.

transitive. To annihilate, destroy (a person or thing); to annul.

To get rid of, clear away, do away with, put an end to (things immaterial). Obsolete.

transitive. To put an end to; to destroy, abolish, obliterate. Obsolete.

transitive. To ruin.

To cause to perish. Obsolete.

transitive. To extinguish, cancel, render void. Also: to kill. Now rare.

figurative. To ‘pull to pieces’, undo, spoil. Obsolete.

transitive. To kill or destroy (a person). Esp. in later use, of a disease. Also reflexive.

transitive. ? To ruin.

transitive. = abrogate, v.

transitive. To press down, crush; to overthrow; to bring to ruin.

figurative. To destroy, do away with, put an end to, suppress (a feeling, desire, project, or other non-material thing).

transitive. To prove harmful or destructive to (an action, state, value, condition, etc.); to spoil.

transitive. To prevent (a plan, purpose, scheme, etc.) from being achieved or realized; to bring to nought; to frustrate.

To destroy, put an end to, or do away with (an institution, practice, condition, faculty, etc.) transitive. In active use with object. Obsolete.

transitive. To destroy or obliterate in an explosion, or with a firearm; to subject to an explosion, to blow up; (in extended use) to ruin…

transitive. To do away with, to put an end to; (occasionally) to reject or deny.

to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perk: to upset; to vanquish, ruin; to be the downfall of. Obsolete.

figurative. To destroy, ruin, confound, bring to nothing, frustrate, spoil (a design, enterprise, hope, etc.): cf. smash, v.1 In 16–17th centuries…

to go to (†the) pot: (originally) †to be cooked or eaten, to be cut in pieces like meat for the pot (obsolete); (now figurative and colloquial) to…

to go to (†the) pot: (originally) †to be cooked or eaten, to be cut in pieces like meat for the pot (obsolete); (now figurative and colloquial) to…

(from 2.) To clear away, remove: most commonly with adverb (away, off, out). To do away with, put an end to, abolish, annihilate. Now always with out.

= exterminate, v. 2 3.

transitive. To ruin irrevocably. Obsolete.

transitive. Now colloquial. To inflict severe suffering or punishment on (a person); to hit repeatedly, beat severely. Also: †to ruin, destroy (obs…

transitive. To undo, reverse; to negate, render ineffective; to ruin, cause to fail. Obsolete.

to put (also set) beside the saddle and variants: to unhorse; (hence) to put ‘out of the running’; to defeat the plans of; to marginalize, thwart…

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…

to come (also get) off one's perch (colloquial): to adopt a less arrogant or condescending manner. to knock (also take,etc.) (a person) off his or…

to make a hand of (also on, †with): to spoil, destroy, do away with. to make a hand: to wreak destruction. Now rare (chiefly English regional (nor…

figurative. transitive. To do away with, put an end to; to have a disastrous effect on, leave in tatters; to negate.

To destroy, finish; to bring to an end. Obsolete.

to make shipwreck of (archaic). To bring to destruction or total ruin.

To destroy, bring to an end. Obsolete.

to knock on (†in) the head (also rarely at head). figurative. To put an end to, bring to nothing.

To make a cipher of, make nought of. Obsolete.

To overthrow, overturn, subvert utterly. transitive. With an institution, practice, etc., as object. Obsolete.

In figurative phr.. to cut off by the shins, to leave not a leg to stand on, undermine. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative.

To get rid of (a thing); to abolish, put an end to, destroy. 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 cause the loss of, bring to destruction or ruin. Obsolete.

transitive. With out. To spoil, waste, or destroy (a thing), as by pulling a fabric into threads. Obsolete.

transitive. figurative. To destroy completely. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. To bring to nought, confound (plots, counsels). Obsolete.

transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To undo, detach; to pull apart, to tear away; to loosen, relax.

transitive. To put an end to; to terminate. Obsolete.

transitive figurative. transitive. To demolish, destroy, defeat; to break down utterly.

To confound, bring to confusion, bring to nought. Obsolete.

transitive. To lead (a person) to sin; to tempt, seduce, corrupt. Obsolete.

figurative. to blow up. to destroy, put an end to; to ruin. Obsolete.

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

figurative, or with immaterial object. Also, to damage or destroy the fortunes of (a person or body of persons).

transitive. slang. To inflict great and irretrievable damage on (a person or thing); to ruin. Cf. to cook one's goose at goose, n. 1d.

transitive. To cause to die or come to an end. rare.

Producing or resulting in death, destruction, or irreversible ruin, material or immaterial; deadly, destructive, ruinous. Const. to. Also in phrase…

transitive. To break up, destroy, put an end to.

to knock (or kick) the hindsight outor off: to dispose of or demolish completely. U.S. colloquial.

colloquial and slang. to put the kibosh on: to put a stop to (someone or something); to interrupt or prevent (a plan or course of action); to bring…

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 put a stop to (someone or something); to bring to an end; = to put the kibosh on at kibosh, n. 1.

slang, chiefly in U.S. to chaw up: to demolish, ‘do for’, ‘smash’.

To ‘do for’, spoil. slang. (Cf. cooper, n.1 1c.)

transitive. colloquial and regional. To put in a bad state or situation; to ruin, spoil, mess up. Cf. jacked-up, adj. 1.

figurative (esp. in political contexts).

transitive. To ruin, spoil; to damage; to make a mess of; to muddle, mishandle.

Originally passive, usually with up: to be tired out, exhausted; so, to be ‘done for’, devitalized. Also actively: to break, destroy, ruin. dialect…

figurative. To paralyse, destroy: cf. explode, v.

on the fritz: in an unsatisfactory or defective state or condition; (now) esp. (of a machine, device, etc.) out of order, broken. to go on the fritz…

colloquial. to put paid to: to deal finally or effectually with; to place out of contention or consideration; to terminate or thwart (an…

transitive. British colloquial. To spoil or ruin (an action or plan). Also with up.

transitive. To annihilate or defeat (a person).

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

plural. In figurative phrases describing impending downfall or defeat; the way to failure or ruin: to put the skids under (a person or thing), to…

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

To put an end to, abolish; to stamp out, wipe out; to kill.

colloquial (originally U.S.). transitive. To make a mess of, spoil, ruin; to mismanage, mishandle.

transitive. To spoil; to destroy all chance of success with.

In various figurative and proverbial expressions. †into the grave of hell: into the lowest depth. secret as the grave: kept as a close secret. to mak…

transitive. To infect (a person) with the pox (usually with syphilis). Also figurative: to ruin, destroy. Also with up.

transitive. To shatter, destroy, or otherwise act upon by means of explosion. Const. with various adverbs of direction, esp. up; also with such…

figurative. figurative. to hit for six: to demolish an argument, scheme, etc., to vanquish; to deal a severe blow to.

transitive. To ruin, make a mess of.

to dust off. To bring to ruin, defeat, kill; to discard, get rid of. slang (originally U.S.).

To put an end to, do away with.