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

stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"

put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"

douse, put out - put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"

black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"

terminate, end - bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI"

decimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

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"