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- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- (mathematics) To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
- kill in large numbers
verb
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
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verb
noun
- (UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.
- (Scotland) A scrog.
- A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
- a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
- lean end of the neck
- the lean end of a neck of veal
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- The state of being annihilated.
- total destruction
- 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 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).
- The total destruction of something.
verb
- To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- (philately) To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused.
- (biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive voice) To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).
- (biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction.
- To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.
- To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.
- (also figuratively) To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete.
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- do away with completely, without leaving a trace
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- remove completely from recognition or memory
adj
verb
- kill or destroy
- sell at a loss
- endure the loss of
- make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
- (Christianity) To celebrate Holy Communion or Mass.
- (religion) To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.
- (bridge) To make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, in the hope that that the player will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.
- (baseball) Of a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.
- To destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.
- (chess) To intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
- (baseball) Of a batter: to bat the ball so that it can be fielded, placing the batter out but allowing one or more runners on base to advance.
- To destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (sciences), to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.
- (religion) To offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity.
noun
- a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
- personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
- the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
- the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
- (baseball) an out that advances the base runners
- A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
- Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
- (by extension) The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offering.
- Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).
- (bridge) In full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.
- The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose.
- (chess) An act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
- (figurative) The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.
verb
- (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
- (biology) To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
- (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- (transitive) To surgically remove.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- surgically remove (an organ)
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
verb
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
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adj
verb
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- (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.
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- (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To die out.
- (psychology) To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
- (figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
- (figurative) To kill (someone).
- (figurative) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
- (figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- put an end to; kill
- terminate, end, or take out
- extinguish by crushing
- kill in large numbers
noun
- the act of exterminating
- the murder of a competitor
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
- The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
- (euphemistic) The murder of dehumanized victims.
noun
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- The place where something has been erased.
- (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- a correction made by erasing
- deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- a surface area where something has been erased
verb
- ruin or destroy
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely
- (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- To devour; to eat up
- (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
noun
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (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.
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
verb
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
- destroy or cause to fail
- 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.
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
noun
- (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.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
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noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
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.
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- (informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
- (slang) A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana.
- A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
- (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.
- an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp
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adj
noun
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (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.
- 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
adj
noun
- 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.
- 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
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adj
noun
- (biochemistry) A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
- (art) An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.
- (informal) A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
verb
noun
noun
- destroying or killing a large part of the population
- (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
- A tithe or the act of tithing.
- (Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
- (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
- (signal processing) A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
verb
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To remove something from a website.
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To swallow.
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- make a written note of
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
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
- 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
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- hit violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hit with great force
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- humiliate or depress completely
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
- (transitive) To hit extremely hard.
noun
- a conspicuous success
- the act of colliding with something
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- A mashed foodstuff.
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verb
- (transitive) To put an end to; to destroy.
- (transitive) To complete (something).
- (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
- (intransitive) To come to an end.
- (intransitive, sex) To reach orgasm.
- (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
- provide with a finish
- come or bring to a finish or an end
- cause to finish a relationship with somebody
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- finally be or do something
- finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
noun
- (professional wrestling, slang) The ending of a match and its structure.
- The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
- A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish.
- (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
- An end; the end of anything.
- A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
- the act of finishing
- the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
- (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed)
- the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict)
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
- event whose occurrence ends something
noun
- destruction by annihilating something
- The state of being annihilated.
- total destruction
- 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 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).
- The total destruction of something.
noun
- the act of exterminating
- the murder of a competitor
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
- The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
- (euphemistic) The murder of dehumanized victims.
noun
- The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- The place where something has been erased.
- (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- a correction made by erasing
- deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- a surface area where something has been erased
noun
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (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.
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
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
- destroying or killing a large part of the population
- (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
- A tithe or the act of tithing.
- (Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
- (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
- (signal processing) A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- (mathematics) To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
- kill in large numbers
verb
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
noun
verb
noun
- (UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.
- (Scotland) A scrog.
- A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
- a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
- lean end of the neck
- the lean end of a neck of veal
verb
- To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- (philately) To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused.
- (biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive voice) To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).
- (biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction.
- To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.
- To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.
- (also figuratively) To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete.
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- do away with completely, without leaving a trace
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- remove completely from recognition or memory
adj
verb
- kill or destroy
- sell at a loss
- endure the loss of
- make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
- (Christianity) To celebrate Holy Communion or Mass.
- (religion) To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.
- (bridge) To make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, in the hope that that the player will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.
- (baseball) Of a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.
- To destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.
- (chess) To intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
- (baseball) Of a batter: to bat the ball so that it can be fielded, placing the batter out but allowing one or more runners on base to advance.
- To destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (sciences), to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.
- (religion) To offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity.
noun
- a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
- personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
- the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
- the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
- (baseball) an out that advances the base runners
- A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
- Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
- (by extension) The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offering.
- Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).
- (bridge) In full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.
- The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose.
- (chess) An act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
- (figurative) The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.
verb
- (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
- (biology) To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
- (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- (transitive) To surgically remove.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- surgically remove (an organ)
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
verb
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
verb
adj
verb
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- (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
- (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To die out.
- (psychology) To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
- (figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
- (figurative) To kill (someone).
- (figurative) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
- (figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- put an end to; kill
- terminate, end, or take out
- extinguish by crushing
- kill in large numbers
verb
- ruin or destroy
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely
- (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- To devour; to eat up
- (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
verb
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
- destroy or cause to fail
- 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.
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
noun
- (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.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
verb
intj
noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
verb
noun
- (informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
- (slang) A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana.
- A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
- (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.
- an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp
verb
adj
noun
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (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.
- 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
adj
noun
- 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.
- 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
verb
adj
noun
- (biochemistry) A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
- (art) An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.
- (informal) A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
verb
noun
verb
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To remove something from a website.
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To swallow.
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- make a written note of
noun
verb
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (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.
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
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
- 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
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- hit violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hit with great force
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- humiliate or depress completely
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
- (transitive) To hit extremely hard.
noun
- a conspicuous success
- the act of colliding with something
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- A mashed foodstuff.
adv
verb
- (transitive) To put an end to; to destroy.
- (transitive) To complete (something).
- (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
- (intransitive) To come to an end.
- (intransitive, sex) To reach orgasm.
- (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
- provide with a finish
- come or bring to a finish or an end
- cause to finish a relationship with somebody
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- finally be or do something
- finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
noun
- (professional wrestling, slang) The ending of a match and its structure.
- The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
- A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish.
- (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
- An end; the end of anything.
- A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
- the act of finishing
- the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
- (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed)
- the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict)
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
- event whose occurrence ends something
adj
noun
verb
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