Synonyms:
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe_out, decimate, carry_off
Meaning: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Usage examples
But it is a law of political economy that an increase of production augments the mass of available capital, consequently tends to raise wages, and finally to annihilate interest.
By assertion, he attempted to annihilate seven States; and the war which followed was to enforce the revolutionary edict, and to establish the supremacy of the General Government on the ruins of the blood-bought independence of the States.