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The verb has 7 meanings:
Meaning #1:
use up, as of resources or materials
Synonyms: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through
Meaning #2:
kill in large numbers
Synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off
Meaning #3:
eliminate completely and without a trace
Synonym: sweep away
Meaning #4:
remove from memory or existence
Synonym: erase
Meaning #5:
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase, as of writings
Synonyms: kill, obliterate
Meaning #6:
wipe out the effect of something
Synonym: cancel out
Meaning #7:
remove completely from recognition or memory
Synonyms: obliterate, efface