Main entry: carry off, wipe out, extinguish, eliminate, eradicate, decimate, annihilate
Definition: kill in large numbers
Usage: the plague wiped out an entire population
Main entry: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
Definition: terminate, end, or take out
Usage: Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics; Socialism extinguished these archaic customs; eliminate my debts
Main entry: snuff out, extinguish
Definition: put an end to; kill
Usage: The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children
Main entry: crush out, press out, stub out, extinguish
Definition: extinguish by crushing
Usage: stub out your cigar
Main entry: quench, extinguish, blow out, snuff out
Definition: put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Usage: Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained; quench the flames; snuff out the candles