· kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Synonym(s): eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe_out, decimate, carry_off
Hypernym(s): kill
· destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"; "root out corruption"
Synonym(s): uproot, extirpate, root_out, exterminate
Hypernym(s): destroy, destruct