Devastate and Kill

verb

• Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
  • usage: "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
  • synonyms: lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge
• Overwhelm or overpower.
  • usage: "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"

noun

• The act of terminating a life.
  • synonyms: killing, putting to death
• The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile.
  • usage: "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

verb

• Cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.
  • usage: "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
• Thwart the passage of.
  • usage: "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
  • synonyms: shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out
• End or extinguish by forceful means.
  • usage: "Stamp out poverty"
  • synonyms: stamp out
• Be fatal.
  • usage: "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"
• Be the source of great pain for.
  • usage: "These new shoes are killing me"
• Overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration.
  • usage: "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me"
• Hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games.
  • usage: "She killed the ball"
• Hit with great force.
  • usage: "He killed the ball"
• Deprive of life.
  • usage: "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
• Cause the death of, without intention.
  • usage: "She was killed in the collision of three cars"
• Drink down entirely.
  • usage: "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
  • synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down
• Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase.
  • usage: "kill these lines in the President's speech"
  • synonyms: obliterate, wipe out
• Tire out completely.
  • usage: "The daily stress of her work is killing her"
• Cause to cease operating.
  • usage: "kill the engine"
• Destroy a vitally essential quality of or in.
  • usage: "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

• (v.t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
• (n.) A kiln.
• (v.t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
• (v.t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
• (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
• (v.t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
• (n.) The act of killing.
• (n.) An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.