verb
- Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many.
- usage: "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
- synonyms: exterminate, kill off
- Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.
- usage: "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- synonyms: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
adjective
- Destroyed completely.
- synonyms: annihilated, wiped out
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