| verb | kill in large numbers “the plague wiped out an entire population” |
| verb | destroy completely, as if down to the roots “the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted” |
| annihilative | adjective | wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction |
| annihilation | noun | total destruction |
| annihilator | noun | a total destroyer |
| extinction | noun | complete annihilation |
| wipeout | noun | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
| decimation | noun | destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot) |
| uprooter | noun | a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
| eradication | noun | the complete destruction of every trace of something |
| eradicator | noun | someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) |
| extirpation | noun | the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence |