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| NOUN: | 1. Informal. The act of defeating or the condition of being defeated: beating, defeat, drubbing, overthrow, rout, thrashing, vanquishment. Informal : trimming, whipping. Slang : dusting, licking. See WIN. 2. The savage killing of many victims: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, pogrom, slaughter. See HELP. | | VERB: | 1. To kill savagely and indiscriminately: annihilate, butcher, decimate, slaughter. See CRIMES, HELP, MAKE. 2. Informal. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal : wallop. Slang : clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See WIN.
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