hävittää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- decimate verb To destroy or reduce a large part of something.
- desolate adj Empty and bleak, with no people or life around; also, extremely sad and without hope.
- destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
- devastate verb To destroy something on a large scale.
- dilapidate verb To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.
- disappear verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.
- discard verb To throw away or get rid of something no longer wanted.
- dispose verb To get rid of something (usually with 'of').
- eliminate verb To completely remove or get rid of something.
- eradicate verb To destroy or get rid of something completely, especially a disease or problem.
- expunge verb To erase or strike out.
- foray noun A short venture or attempt into an activity or area outside one's usual expertise.
- gut noun The stomach and intestines; someone's digestive system.
- level adj Flat and even; at the same height throughout, or matching a given height.
- obliterate verb To destroy something completely, leaving no trace.
- pillage verb To loot or plunder a place by force, typically during war.
- ravage verb To cause severe damage or destruction to something.
- rout noun A crushing, disorganized defeat.
- trash noun Discarded material; garbage or rubbish.
Senses
hävittää is used for these senses in English:
- abate To demolish or level to the ground (a building or other structure). [from early 15th c.]
- annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- decimate (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
- desolate To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- destroy (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- devastate To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- dilapidate (transitive, figurative) To squander or waste.
- disappear (transitive, often, euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
abate — full definition
- verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.
annihilate — full definition
- verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- verb Physics: for a particle and its antiparticle to collide and convert entirely into energy.