to exterminate or harm all living things in nature

(literary) exhausted and ruined; in a state of decay or collapse

to annihilate, wipe out, or extirpate; to commit genocide

misfortune and poverty; ruin and exhaustion. This literary term often describes the collapse or suffering of a country or its people.

to cause something to cease existing; to exterminate or wipe out

to execute the wicked and suppress those who rebel