- Total destruction - The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or
the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a
thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the
annihilation of a corporation. - The state of being annihilated.
- Complete removal - The act of exterminating; total destruction;
eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes,
of error or vice, or of weeds from a field. - Elimination.
- The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of
being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the
extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of
men, of heresy.