Amortize: alternatives and connections

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority;…

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.

To impair; to destroy.

To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilat…

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.

Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained…

To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.

To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journ…

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first wo…

To destroy; to put to death.

Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm…