Wipe out

a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town

Yasser Arafat (Katz): You do not go far enough General Amin. We must rip their entrails out and drag them from here to Damascus until they include us in the peace process. Muammar Gaddafi (LuJane): No! Nonsense! This solution is not bold enough for Libya. I say wipe out Washington and New York.

Darth Sidious: Wipe them out. All of them.

Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.

nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups

trying to wipe out hunger and alleviate despair

The leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had dominated headlines in recent weeks with rousing open-air rallies against capitalism, took about 11% and failed in his ultimate aim of beating Le Pen and wiping out the extreme right.

An hour of snow shoveling kind of wiped me out more than I expected.

I tried to force myself to sound happy even though I was exhausted. Four solid days of finals and studying for them had wiped me out.

They tried hard to hang on, but the Great Depression wiped them out.