| Main Entry: | gut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clean out, strip |
Synonyms: |
bowel, decimate, despoil, dilapidate, disembowel, draw, dress, empty, eviscerate, exenterate, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, rifle, sack |
Antonyms: |
fill |
| Main Entry: | destroy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demolish, devastate |
Synonyms: |
abort, annihilate, annul, axe, blot out, break down, butcher, consume, cream*, crush, damage, deface, desolate, despoil, dismantle, dispatch, end, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, impair, kill, lay waste, level, liquidate, maim, mar, maraud, mutilate, nuke, nullify, overturn, quash, quell, ravage, ravish, raze, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, smash, snuff out, spoliate, stamp out, suppress, swallow up, tear down, torpedo, total, trash*, vaporize, waste, wax, wipe out, wreck, zap |
Antonyms: |
build, construct, create, improve, repair, restore |
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove contents |
Synonyms: |
clear, consume, decant, deplete, discharge, disgorge, drain, drink, dump, ebb, eject, escape, evacuate, exhaust, expel, flow out, gut, leak, leave, make void, pour out, purge, release, run out, rush out, tap, unburden, unload, use up, vacate, void |
Antonyms: |
fill |
| Main Entry: | erase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove; rub out |
Synonyms: |
X-out, abolish, annul, black out, blank, blot, blue pencil, cancel, cross out, cut, cut out, delete, disannul, dispatch, efface, eliminate, excise, expunge, extirpate, gut, kill, launder, negate, nullify, obliterate, scratch out, stamp out, strike, strike out, take out, trim, wipe out, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
add, insert, put in |
| Main Entry: | excise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove, delete |
Synonyms: |
X out, amputate, black out, blot out, blue pencil, cross out, cut, cut off, cut out, cut up, destroy, edit, elide, eradicate, erase, expunge, exscind, exsect, exterminate, extirpate, extract, gut, knock off, launder, lop off, resect, scissor out, scratch out, slash, stamp out, strike, trim, wipe out |
Antonyms: |
add, put in |
| Main Entry: | expunge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy, obliterate |
Synonyms: |
KO, X out, abolish, annihilate, annul, black, black out, blot out, blue pencil, call all bets off, call off, cancel, cut, delete, discard, drop, efface, eradicate, erase, exclude, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, kayo, kill, knock off, launder, omit, raze, remove, scrub, strike out, take out, trim, wipe out, zap |
Antonyms: |
bear, build, construct, create |
| Main Entry: | loot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal goods |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, boost, burglarize, despoil, grab, gut, liberate, lift, loft, make, moonlight requisition, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, snitch, stick up, swipe, take, thieve, tip over |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | pillage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder, destroy |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, arrogate, confiscate, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, gut, invade, lay waste, lift*, loot, maraud, nab, pilfer, pinch*, purloin, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, rob, ruin, sack, spoil, spoliate, steal, strip, thieve, trespass, waste |
Antonyms: |
protect, safeguard |
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, steal |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, burn, depredate, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, kip, knock off, knock over, lay waste, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, moonlight requisition, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, spoil, stick up, strip |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | prune |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trim; cut short |
Synonyms: |
clip, cut back, dock, eliminate, exclude, gut, knock off, lop, pare down, reduce, shape, shave, shear, shorten, skive, snip, thin |