Synonyms: carry off, wipe out, extinguish, eliminate, eradicate, decimate, annihilate
Definition: kill in large numbers
Usage: the plague wiped out an entire population
Similar words: kill
Definition: cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
Usage: This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank; The farmer killed a pig for the holidays
Synonyms: cancel out, wipe out
Definition: wipe out the effect of something
Usage: The new tax effectively cancels out my raise; The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record
Similar words: 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
Synonyms: wipe out, obliterate, kill
Definition: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
Usage: kill these lines in the President's speech
Similar words: take away, take out
Definition: take out or remove
Usage: take out the chicken after adding the vegetables
Definition: remove from memory or existence
Usage: The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
Similar words: kill
Definition: cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
Usage: This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank; The farmer killed a pig for the holidays
Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, deplete, run through, wipe out, use up, exhaust
Definition: use up (resources or materials)
Usage: this car consumes a lot of gas; We exhausted our savings; They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Synonyms: sweep away, wipe out
Definition: eliminate completely and without a trace
Usage: The old values have been wiped out
Similar words: destroy, destruct
Definition: do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
Usage: The fire destroyed the house