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 destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
The act of uprooting something.