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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

  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.

decimate — full definition

  1. verb To destroy or reduce a large part of something.
  2. verb Historically, to kill one in every ten of a group, especially as a punishment carried out in the Roman army.

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