verb
- Kill in large numbers.
- usage: "the plague wiped out an entire population"
- synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, carry off
- Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.
- usage: "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- synonyms: uproot, extirpate, root out, exterminate
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