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Extermination

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.

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Annihilation 76% connected

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 na…

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Destruction 76% connected

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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Devastation 76% connected

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

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Disintegration 76% connected

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.

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Decimate 74% connected

To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

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Decimate 74% connected

To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

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Extinction 92% connected

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Liquidation 92% connected

The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

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Acceptance noun · 78% connection

(contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)

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Contract noun · 78% connection

a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

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Act of God noun · 78% connection

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured aga…

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Force majeure noun · 78% connection

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured aga…

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Illegality noun · 78% connection

unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute

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Inevitable accident noun · 78% connection

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured aga…

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Recission noun · 78% connection

(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the…

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Rescission noun · 78% connection

(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the…

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Unavoidable casualty noun · 78% connection

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured aga…

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Vis major noun · 78% connection

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured aga…

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Abundance noun · 78% connection

(chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a perc…

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Aceldama noun · 78% connection

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and ther…

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Algonkin noun · 78% connection

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern par…

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Amnesia noun · 78% connection

partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

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Anachronism noun · 78% connection

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by…

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Averruncation noun · 78% connection

Eradication.

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Balance noun · 78% connection

To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of b…

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Check bit noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will…

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Converse noun · 78% connection

A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for t…

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Cornfield noun · 78% connection

A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

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Deraination noun · 78% connection

The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.

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End noun · 78% connection

Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.

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Error noun · 78% connection

A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as,…

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Errorist noun · 78% connection

One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

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Exterminate verb · 78% connection

To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterm…

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Extirpate verb · 78% connection

To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to e…

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Extirpation noun · 78% connection

The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation…

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Fall verb · 78% connection

To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize;…

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