Collapse
Collapse noun - A complete depletion of energy or strength.
Extermination and collapse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extermination" instead a noun "Collapse".
Extermination
Extermination noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.
Usage example: the virtual extermination of the native tribes by the colonizers
Collapse and extermination are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Collapse" instead a noun "Extermination".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- defeat and collapse
- defeat and extermination
- overthrow and collapse
- overthrow and extermination
- end and collapse
- end and extermination
- destruction and collapse
- destruction and extermination
- ruin and collapse
- ruin and extermination
- demise and collapse
- demise and extermination
- wreck and collapse
- wreck and extermination
How words are described
| physical | physical collapse | physical extermination |
| complete | complete collapse | complete extermination |
| utter | utter collapse | utter extermination |
| total | total collapse | total extermination |
| Other adjectives: actual, real, slow, ultimate, near, outright, inevitable, impending, imminent, eventual, literal, swift. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Because it would have resulted in a world with advanced military tech, even more polarized than it was during the Cold War, and the collapse of The Masquerade and the extermination of all Others.
Source: Muggles Do It Better - Synopsis: Millions are being shipped to extermination camps across Europe, the Allied bombing raids are growing more fierce, the 6th Army in Stalingrad is on the verge of collapse and the Anglo-American invasion of Algeria will become a reality.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Mass Effect
Cite this Source
Extermination and Collapse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/extermination
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