To destroy or abolish something.
To obscure or eclipse something.
To hunt down (a species) to extinction.
To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex.
To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.
To die out.
To kill.
To execute by strangulation.
To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation.
An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.