extinguish#3 (v)
eliminate#1 (v)
get rid of (v)
do away with (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 30
def terminate, end, or take out
examples Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
eliminate my debts
Frame - 8 Somebody ----s something
Frame - 9 Somebody ----s somebody
Frame - 10 Something ----s somebody
Frame - 11 Something ----s something
Outgoing links
Hypernym destroy, destruct
Derivationally related form eliminate → elimination; eliminate → elimination; eliminate → eliminator
Hyponym cancel out, wipe out; decouple; decouple; obliterate; knock out; drown; cut out; cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise; snuff out, extinguish; exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
Incoming links
Derivationally related form elimination → eliminate; elimination → eliminate; eliminator → eliminate
Hypernym cancel out, wipe out; decouple; decouple; obliterate; knock out; drown; cut out; cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise; snuff out, extinguish; exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
Entailment screen
Hyponym destroy, destruct

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