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verb
  1. To cause the death of: carry off, cut down, cut off, destroy, dispatch, finish (off), slay. Slang: waste, zap. Idioms: put an end to, put to sleep. See help
  2. To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully: destroy, finish (off), liquidate, murder, slay. Informal: put away. Slang: bump off, do in, knock off, off, rub out, waste, wipe out, zap. See help
  3. To destroy all traces of: abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root 1 (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See help, make
  4. To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work: dawdle (away), fiddle away, idle (away), trifle away, waste, while (away), wile (away). See industrious
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