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adj
noun
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- total destruction
- The state of being annihilated.
- The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- The total destruction of something.
- the complete destruction of every trace of something
- The concealing or covering of something.
- The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- (medicine) The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- The state of being desolated or laid waste
- The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- A place or country wasted and forsaken.
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
- (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.
verb
adj
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- overwhelm or overpower
- To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
- (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- (slang) To rape.
- (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
noun
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- whip
- punish severely; excoriate
- To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
- To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
- To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
noun
- something causing misery or death
- a whip used to inflict punishment
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
- A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
adj
noun
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
- A loss of reputation.
- The act of ruining or wrecking.
noun
noun
- total destruction
- in a decomposed state
- a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
- separation into component parts
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- (nuclear physics) The process of radioactive decay.
- The radioactive decay of a single atom.
- A process by which anything disintegrates.
- The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
- (geology) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
adj
- Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
- Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
- Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
- causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
- extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
noun
- Violent and general destruction.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A chimney sweep.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- clean by sweeping
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
- (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- (transitive, computing) To remove data.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
noun
- Death and destruction.
- (figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
- (figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.
- The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- (figurative, slang) A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
adj
noun
noun
- complete annihilation
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
verb
noun
noun
- Destruction of Earth.
- Synonym of ends of the earth (faraway place)
- Death and destruction of life on Earth, especially human.
- (idiomatic) Any change that seems catastrophic or devastating.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
- (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, sometimes capitalized) Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
- Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.
- The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
noun
- Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
- Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
- (religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
- (religion, also figuratively) A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
- Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
- an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
verb
verb
- destroy by exploding
- drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
- show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
- show a violent emotional reaction
- burst outward, usually with noise
- cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
- be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- (intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
- (mathematics) To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
- (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To emerge suddenly.
verb
- destroy
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
- violate the sacred character of a place or language
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- (transitive) To rape.
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- total destruction
- The state of being annihilated.
- The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it.
- (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
- The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- The total destruction of something.
- the complete destruction of every trace of something
- The concealing or covering of something.
- The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- (medicine) The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- The state of being desolated or laid waste
- The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- A place or country wasted and forsaken.
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
- (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
- A loss of reputation.
- The act of ruining or wrecking.
noun
noun
- total destruction
- in a decomposed state
- a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
- separation into component parts
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- (nuclear physics) The process of radioactive decay.
- The radioactive decay of a single atom.
- A process by which anything disintegrates.
- The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
- (geology) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
noun
- Violent and general destruction.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A chimney sweep.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- clean by sweeping
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
noun
- Death and destruction.
- (figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
- (figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.
- The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- (figurative, slang) A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
noun
- complete annihilation
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
noun
- Destruction of Earth.
- Synonym of ends of the earth (faraway place)
- Death and destruction of life on Earth, especially human.
- (idiomatic) Any change that seems catastrophic or devastating.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
noun
- Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
- Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
- (religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
- (religion, also figuratively) A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
- Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
- an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
verb
verb
adj
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- overwhelm or overpower
- To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
- To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
- (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- (slang) To rape.
- (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
noun
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- whip
- punish severely; excoriate
- To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
- To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
- To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
noun
- something causing misery or death
- a whip used to inflict punishment
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
- A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
adj
noun
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
verb
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
- (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- (transitive, computing) To remove data.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
verb
noun
verb
- destroy by exploding
- drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
- show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
- show a violent emotional reaction
- burst outward, usually with noise
- cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
- be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- (intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
- (mathematics) To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
- (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To emerge suddenly.
verb
- destroy
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
- violate the sacred character of a place or language
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- (transitive) To rape.
adj
noun
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
adj
- Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
- Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
- Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
- causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
- extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
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noun
- Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
- (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, sometimes capitalized) Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
- Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.
- The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives