Extirpative
21devastating — adj 1. destructive, desolating, ruinous, ravaging; plundering, vandalizing, pillaging; extirpative, annihilative, annihilatory. 2. harmful, deleterious, pernicious, baleful, menacing, malign; wasting, enervating, weakening, debilitating; deadly,… …
22fatal — adj 1. deadly, lethal, mortal, mortiferous, deathful, Archaic. lethiferous; venomous, virulent, toxic, morbific; fell, baneful, mephitic, viperous, poisonous, Archaic. venenose. 2. destructive, ruinous, annihilative, calamitous, disastrous,… …
23fell — 1.v cut down, hew, mow, level, raze, demolish; shoot, wound, strike down, prostrate; overthrow, kill. adj 1. fierce, savage, ferocious, vicious, truculent; bestial, brutish, feral, ferine, tigerish, wolfish, lupine; brutal, violent, inhuman,… …
24harmful — adj 1. dangerous, detrimental, deleterious, pernicious; injurious, hurtful, damaging, baneful; ruinous, destructive, fell, extirpative; unhealthy, insalubrious, unwholesome, noxious, poisonous, venomous, septic, toxic, virulent, corrosive. 2. bad …
25inimical — adj harmful, dangerous, detrimental, deleterious, pernicious; injurious, hurtful, damaging, baneful; ruinous, destructive, extirpative; noxious, unhealthy, unwholesome, poisonous, venomous, septic, toxic, virulent. 2. hostile, antagonistic,… …
26killing — n 1. murder, slaying, manslaughter, thug gee, fatality, death, violent death, bloody or foul murder, murder most foul, foul play, assassination, shooting, strangling, strangulation, garrotting, poisoning; execution, capital punishment, judicial… …
27murderous — adj 1. killing, homicidal, cutthroat, assassinative, death dealing, lethal, fatal, mortal, mor tiferous, deadly, deathly, Archaic. lethiferous; slaughterous, internecine, savage, barbarous, cruel, brutal, fiendish, cannibalistic, anthropophagous …
28ruinuous — adj 1. devastating, disastrous, destructive, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; wasting, wasteful, ravaging, pulverizing; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive. 2. extirpative, annihilative,… …
29extirpate — /ˈɛkstɜpeɪt / (say eksterpayt), / stə / (say stuh ) verb (t) (extirpated, extirpating) 1. to remove utterly; destroy totally; exterminate; do away with. 2. to pull up by the roots; root up. {Latin ex(s)tirpātus, past participle, rooted out}… …
30destructive — [adj1] injurious, devastating annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell,… …
