· use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
Synonym(s): consume, eat_up, use_up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run_through
Hypernym(s): spend, expend, drop
· kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Synonym(s): eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry_off
Hypernym(s): kill
· eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
Synonym(s): sweep_away
Hypernym(s): destroy, destruct
· remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
Synonym(s): erase
Hypernym(s): kill
· mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
Synonym(s): kill, obliterate
Hypernym(s): take_away, take_out
· wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
Synonym(s): cancel_out
Hypernym(s): extinguish, eliminate, get_rid_of, do_away_with