· kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
Synonym(s): kill_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, eradicate, extirpate, root_out
Hypernym(s): destroy, destruct