Synonyms Dictionary
5. immolate, sacrifice, burn; (all of oneself) commit suicide or hara-kari, Inf overdose, Sl. O.D., Sl. brodie, Sl. take the gas, Sl. take a powder.
6. annihilate, exterminate, obliterate, discreate, reduce to nothing, destroy totally, eradicate, extirpate, abolish, extinguish; massacre, decimate, destroy a great number.
7. neutralize, negate, nullify, deaden, undo, depoten-tiate; offset, equalize, balance, counterbalance; weaken, dilute, mix, admix, alloy, (of drugs or alcohol) water or water down, (of drugs or alcohol) cut.
8. mar, spoil, despoil, ruin, damage, impair, hurt, harm; detract from, reduce, decrease, diminish.
9. (all of time) pass, while away, beguile, fill, occupy, spend, expend, exhaust, take up, employ, wait through; consume, absorb, use up, eat up, devour, swallow up, guzzle, put in; waste, dissipate, squander, fritter or fool away, lose, throw away, lavish, misspend, misuse, Sl. blow.
10. overwhelm, overpower, overcome completely, stagger, amaze, bedazzle; Sl. break or knock one dead or out, Sl. knock or lay them in the aisles, Sl. break or crack one up; stir, affect, move, transport, impassion, touch, influence, incite, stimulate, excite, electrify.
11. irk, gall, vex, displease, annoy, disturb, provoke, irritate, nettle, rile, pique, chafe, ruffle.
12. muffle, deaden, damp, dampen, dull, smother, mute, silence.
13. exhaust, tire, tire out, fag, fag out, Inf. tucker, Inf. tucker out, fatigue, wear out, weary, sap; debilitate, weaken, prostrate, enervate, tax, strain, overtire, overwork, overtax, overtask, overburden.
14. cancel, delete, expunge, remove, cross out, cut out, scratch, excise, withdraw, edit, amend, obliterate, strike or rule out, write off; erase, efface, eradicate, wipe or blot out.
15. veto, vote down, turn down, countermand, defeat, reject, overrule, disallow, prohibit.
16. (all of machinery) stop, cease, discontinue, turn off, shut off, cut off, terminate, stall, pause, brake; pull up.
17. Informal, (usu. of food or drink) consume, devour, absorb, swallow up, drink up, guzzle down, bolt down, gulp down, gobble down; drain, empty, exhaust, deplete, finish, finish off, do in, Sl. eighty-six. -n. 18. deathblow, killing blow, finishing stroke, final assault, Inf. haymaker, Sl. sockdolager, Inf. Sunday punch, Sl. mop-up, Fr. coup de grace, dispatch, death; finish, end, conclusion, termination.
19. prey, quarry, game, raven, victim, meat, carcass, killer, n. 1. slayer, murderer, manslayer, man-killer, cutthroat, thug, poisoner, strangler, impaler; assassin, liquidator, bravo, sniper, gunman, knifer, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; All Sl. gun, hired gun, hit man, triggerman, torpedo, hatchet man; executioner, executionist, Sl. Jack Ketch, decapitator, headsman, beheader, lyncher, hangman, garrotter, burker, burkist, Bullfighting, matador; butcher, slaughterer, Bluebeard, ripper, mass-murderer, mass-slayer, exterminator, annihilator, destroyer; blood-spiller, bloodshedder, bloodletter.
2. homicide, suicide, patricide, matricide, parricide, fratricide, sororicide, uxoricide, infanticide, regicide, vaticide; aborticide, insecticide, fungicide, germicide.
3. Slang, humdinger, killer-diller, doosy, dinger, Brit, ripper, the cat's meow, Brit, the bee's knees, mindblower, mindboggler, trip, trip-and-a-half; honey, lulu, dilly, beaut, beauty; lady's man, lady-killer, playboy, rake.
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