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Exterminate (Verb)

Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The dictator's regime sought to exterminate the entire rebel population within the span of a few weeks.
During the war, a toxic gas leak from the factory threatened to exterminate the entire nearby village.
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge sought to exterminate the intelligentsia and anyone educated to restore the agrarian society.
The totalitarian regime launched a campaign to exterminate opposition leaders and their families.
The Spanish flu pandemic nearly exterminated the indigenous population of the remote island due to their lack of immunity.

Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"; "root out corruption".

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.

The new government vowed to exterminate the remnants of the oppressive regime that had terrorized the population for decades.
In an effort to rebuild the city, they sought to exterminate all signs of the old corruption that had brought it to ruin.
The authorities launched a campaign to exterminate crime in the city's most notorious neighborhoods.
The activists demanded that the government take action to exterminate human trafficking in the country.
Determined to start anew, the community came together to exterminate the lingering prejudices that had divided them for so long.