decimate :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, carry off, wipe out

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out, pull up

v. pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

consume

v. destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

ravage, harry

v. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

cancel, delete

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

kill, obliterate, wipe out

v. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"

demolish, destroy

v. defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"

get rid of, abolish

v. do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

expel, throw out, boot out, kick out, oust, drum out

v. remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"

suspend, debar

v. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

strike, excise, expunge

v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

efface, erase, wipe off, score out, rub out

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

take, remove, take away

v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

mark, strike out, cross off, cross out, strike off

v. remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"

clear, delete, erase

v. wipe out magnetically recorded information

purge

v. clear or empty

ruin, destroy

v. destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"

demolish, destroy completely

v. destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"

exterminate, uproot, extirpate

v. destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"

eliminate, do away with, get rid of

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

wipe, pass over

v. rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

dust, remove the dust from

v. remove the dust from; "dust the cabinets"

dust

v. rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image"

wipe, obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

cut, edit, edit out

v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

finish, end, stop, halt, cease, run out, terminate, come to an end, close over

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

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