Thesaurus / exterminate
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I should have voted for at least three presidential candidates at this point in my life, but that possibility where I come from was exterminated like a deadly pandemic.
MY VOTE ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ARE EXCLUDEDYARIEL VALDÉS GONZÁLEZOCTOBER 27, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
Stamets’ other mushroom nostrums include dissolving petroleum waste, exterminating unwanted insects, and creating vaccines that can eradicate viruses.
HOW PSILOCYBIN CAN SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENMARK MACNAMARASEPTEMBER 30, 2020NAUTILUS
It is interesting to note in all the colonies the attempt to exterminate all idle folk and idle ways.
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYSALICE MORSE EARLE
The struggle will be to the death; therefore, those who would sell the country to him you must exterminate without scruple.
If the villain willed my death, why not exterminate me at once?
THE BUCCANEERMRS. S. C. HALL
You can no more hope to exterminate them by culture than you can hope to produce them by machinery.
THE COMING OF THE FRIARSAUGUSTUS JESSOPP
For any civilized nation to exterminate valuable and interesting species of wild mammals, birds or fishes is more than a disgrace.
OUR VANISHING WILD LIFEWILLIAM T. HORNADAY
There was not a moment to lose, for one well-directed shot might exterminate half of us.
Exterminate all of the mosquitoes of certain species and the dissemination of human malaria is absolutely prevented.
HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGYWILLIAM ALBERT RILEY
Intelligence of this affair being carried to the pope, Pius the Fourth, he determined to exterminate them from Calabria.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXE
WORDS RELATED TO EXTERMINATE
- abolish
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- behead
- blot out
- bump off
- butcher
- chill
- cool
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- dispatch
- do in
- drub
- dust off
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- garotte
- guillotine
- hang
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- knife
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- lynch
- mangle
- mar
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- misuse
- off
- put away
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- ruin
- shoot
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
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- spoil
- strangle
- take a life
- take for a ride
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- behead
- blot out
- bump off
- butcher
- chill
- cool
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- defeat
- destroy
- dispatch
- do in
- drub
- dust off
- electrocute
- eliminate
- eradicate
- execute
- exterminate
- extinguish
- finish
- garotte
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- knife
- knock off
- liquidate
- lynch
- mangle
- mar
- massacre
- misuse
- off
- put away
- rub out
- ruin
- shoot
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- spoil
- strangle
- take a life
- take for a ride
- take out
- thrash
- waste
- KO
- X-out
- annihilate
- ax
- black out
- blot out
- blue pencil
- bog
- cancel
- cover
- cut
- defeat
- delete
- do in
- efface
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- erase
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- extirpate
- finish
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- knock out
- level
- liquidate
- mark out
- nix
- obscure
- off
- ravage
- root out
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- scrub
- shoot down
- sink
- smash
- squash
- take apart
- take out
- torpedo
- total
- trash
- wash out
- waste
- wipe off face of earth
- wipe out
- zap
- KO
- X-out
- annihilate
- ax
- black out
- blot out
- blue pencil
- bog
- cancel
- cover
- cut
- defeat
- delete
- do in
- efface
- eliminate
- eradicate
- erase
- expunge
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
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- kill
- knock off
- knock out
- level
- liquidate
- mark out
- nix
- obscure
- off
- ravage
- root out
- rub off
- rub out
- scratch
- scrub
- shoot down
- sink
- smash
- squash
- take apart
- take out
- torpedo
- total
- trash
- wash out
- waste
- wipe off face of earth
- wipe out
- zap
- abolish
- beat
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- tip
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- eradicate
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- knock down
- knock over
- level
- liquidate
- oust
- overcome
- overpower
- overrun
- overturn
- overwhelm
- purge
- put an end to
- raze
- ruin
- subdue
- subjugate
- subvert
- terminate
- tip
- topple
- tumble
- unseat
- upend
- upset
- vanquish
- annihilate
- break up
- capture
- consume
- cream
- crush
- damage
- demolish
- desecrate
- desolate
- despoil
- devastate
- dismantle
- disorganize
- disrupt
- exterminate
- extinguish
- forage
- foray
- gut
- harry
- impair
- lay waste
- leave in ruins
- loot
- overrun
- overthrow
- overwhelm
- pillage
- pirate
- plunder
- prey
- prostrate
- pull down
- raid
- rape
- raze
- rob
- ruin
- sack
- seize
- shatter
- sink
- smash
- spoil
- spoliate
- stamp out
- strip
- sweep away
- total
- trample
- trash
- waste
- wreak havoc
- wreck
- wrest
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