истреби́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
• destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
• eradicate verb To destroy or get rid of something completely, especially a disease or problem.
• exterminate verb To destroy or kill off completely, especially a group of pests or people.
• slaughter noun The killing of animals for food.

Senses

истреби́ть is used for these senses in English:

• annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
• destroy (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• eradicate (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
• exterminate (transitive) To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
• slaughter (transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers.
• wipe out (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.

annihilate — full definition

1. verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
2. verb Physics: for a particle and its antiparticle to collide and convert entirely into energy.

destroy — full definition

1. verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
2. verb To defeat someone completely and overwhelmingly.
3. verb To kill an animal deliberately, usually for humane or safety reasons.

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