List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 1

SYNONYMS: abolish, exterminate, extinguish, eradicate, obliterate.
These verbs mean to get rid of.

Abolish applies only to doing away with conditions, practices, or regulations, not material things or persons: The legislature passed a law to abolish the surtax.
Exterminate suggests total destruction, as of living things, by a deliberate, selective method: People were exterminated in the concentration camps.
Extinguish means to put out a flame or something likened to a flame: Repeated rebuffs couldn't extinguish my enthusiasm.
Eradicate stresses the resistance to dislodging offered by the object: Scientists are working to find a serum to eradicate the disease.
Obliterate means to destroy so as to leave no trace: Amnesia mercifully obliterated his memory of the accident.