истребля́ть — meaning in English
istreblyat
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English meaning
- annihilate verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- decimate verb To destroy or reduce a large part of something.
- 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
истребля́ть is used for these senses in English:
- annihilate To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- decimate (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
- 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
- verb To destroy completely; to wipe out entirely.
- verb Physics: for a particle and its antiparticle to collide and convert entirely into energy.
decimate — full definition
- verb To destroy or reduce a large part of something.
- verb Historically, to kill one in every ten of a group, especially as a punishment carried out in the Roman army.