All offing synonyms

verb offing

• do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
• do in — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• strike out — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
• wash out — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
• annihilate — To annihilate something means to destroy it completely.
• exterminate — Destroy completely.
• extinguish — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
• stamp out — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
• uproot — to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
• weed out — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
• deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
• extirpate — Root out and destroy completely.
• liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
• purge — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
• raze — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
• 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.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• mow down — to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
• root out — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
• shoot down — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
• take out — the act of taking.
• unroot — to uproot.
• assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
• drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
• execute — execution
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• 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.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• crucify — If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
• dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
• dump — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• electrocute — Injure or kill someone by electric shock.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• 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.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• immolate — to sacrifice.
• lynch — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
• neutralize — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
• smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
• snuff — to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
• 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.
• suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
• polish off — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
• put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.