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51consume — v 1. expend, use up, exhaust, drain, deplete, empty; finish, finish off, Sl. polish off, dispose of, get rid of, Sl. do in. 2.(all of food or drink) devour, absorb, eat up, swallow, gulp down, drink up, guzzle, gobble, bolt, wolf, Inf. put away… …
52demolish — v 1. raze, tear down, pull down, take down, bring down, break down, throw down, beat down, batter down; cast down, knock down, fling down, hurl down, precipitate, Inf. spill, tumble, topple; fell, lay level, prostrate, level, bulldoze, flatten;… …
53destroy — v 1. demolish, wipe out, pulverize, wreck, Sl. total, knock to pieces; raze, gut, fell, prostrate, level; pull down, tear down, take down, bring down, break down, throw down, cast down, beat down, knock down; shatter, crash, smash, batter, break; …
54eradicate — v 1. extirpate, destroy totally, annihilate, discreate, exterminate, abolish; expung * obliterate, efface; strike out, blot out, stamp out, crush out, snuff out, wipe out; remove, eliminate, get rid of, liquidate, purge; do away with, leave no… …
55expunge — v 1. obliterate, extirpate, eradicate, exterminate, annihilate, abolish, discreate; blot out, strike out, stamp out, snuff out, crush out; devastate, destroy, demolish, ravage, desolate, ruin, Dial. ruinate, raze; efface, wipe out, do away with,… …
56extinguish — v 1. snuff out, put out, quench, Inf. douse, Inf. dinch, blow out, (of a light) turn off, (of a cigar, cigarette) Sl. snub out; smother, suffocate, stifle, damp, choke. 2. extirpate, obliterate, expunge, eradicate, exterminate, annihilate,… …
57extirpate — v 1. obliterate, exterminate, expunge, eradicate, annihilate, discreate, abolish; blot out, strike out, stamp out, snuff out, crush out; devastate, destroy, demolish, ravage, desolate, ruin, Dial. ruinate, raze; efface, wipe out, do away with,… …
58havoc — n 1. devastation, destruction, ruination, rack and ruin, holocaust, demolition, wipe out, debacle, ruin; spoliation, despoliation, ravage, pillage, plunder, sack; robbing, plundering, gutting, ransacking, vandalizing, wasting, Sl. trashing;… …
59impoverish — v 1. reduce to poverty, pauperize, beggar; ruin, Dial. ruinate, break, bankrupt, destroy financially. 2. exhaust, use up, deplete, drain, sap, take all one s strength; wear out, tire out, fatigue, Inf. do in, Sl. do a number on, Sl. waste; weaken …
60overthrow — v 1. vanquish, conquer, subjugate, Sl. shellac; defeat, beat, rout, discomfit, worst, thrash; overpower, overmaster, be victorious over, Inf. whip; subvert, overturn, overcome, overwhelm, prevail over, surmount; quash, quell, squash, squelch;… …
