All dust off synonyms

verb dust off

• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
• shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• slay — to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
• massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
• behead — If someone is beheaded, their head is cut off, usually because they have been found guilty of a crime.
• strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
• decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
• lynch — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
• put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
• scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
• forfeit — a fine; penalty.
• terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
• abort — If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
• renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
• divorce — a divorced man.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• forsake — to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
• jilt — to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
• scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
• dismiss — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• resign — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
• interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
• disown — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
• desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
• relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
• remit — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
• kick — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
• adios — goodbye; farewell
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
• mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
• guillotine — a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
• snuff — to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).