kill - destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

do away with, eliminate, get rid of - terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

unmake, undo - deprive of certain characteristics

self-destroy, self-destruct - do away with oneself or itself; "The machine will self-destruct if you tamper with it"

destruct - destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"

end - put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"

fracture - interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power"

sweep away, wipe out - eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"

interdict - destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication

demolish, pulverise, pulverize - destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"

break apart, disassemble, take apart, dismantle, break up - take apart into its constituent pieces

pull down, rase, raze, dismantle, tear down, level, take down - tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

extirpate, uproot, eradicate, exterminate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"

dilapidate - bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse

demyelinate - destoy the myelin sheath of; "the disease demyelinated the nerve fibers"

burn, burn down, fire - destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"

devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, desolate, waste - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

ravage, harry - make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

break - find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"

bust, break - ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"

vandalise, vandalize - destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism; "vandalize the park"

do a job on - destroy completely or make ugly or useless; "The dog did a job on my pillow"; "The semastress did a job on my wedding gown"

subvert - destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis"

get - overcome or destroy; "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish"

devour - destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"

despoil, rape, plunder, violate, spoil - destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

explode - destroy by exploding; "The enemy exploded the bridge"

consume - destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

shipwreck - destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"

bust up, wrack, wreck - smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"

kick down, kick in - open violently; "kick in the doors"

wash out - wear or destroy by the force of water; "The hail storms had washed out the bridges"

smash - overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful); "The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off"

swallow - engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"

cut to ribbons - defeat totally; "We must cut the other team to ribbons!"

defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"