| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To impair severely something such as the spirit, health, or effectiveness of: break, crush, destroy, ruin. See HELP. 2. To affect as if by an outpouring of water: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp, whelm. See FULL. 3. To flow over completely: deluge, drown, engulf, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, submerge, whelm. See FULL. 4. To affect deeply or completely, as with emotion: crush, engulf, overcome, overpower, prostrate. See AFFECT. 5. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal : massacre, wallop. Slang : clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See WIN.
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