- zap
- v Slang.1. kill, slay, murder, assassinate, do to death; liquidate, erase, blot out, get rid of; put away or out of the way, carry off, remove, dispatch; silence, finish, finish off, do for, fix, settle, lay out or low, Inf. put the kibosh on; shoot, shoot down, riddle, Sl. blow [s.o.'s] brains out, Sl. pump or fill full of lead; All Sl. off, hit, waste, croak, eighty-six, take off, rub out, snuff out, bump off, knock off, polish off, give [s.o.] the works or business; All Euph. send west, take [s.o.] for a ride, put [s.o.] out of his misery.2. defeat, conquer, vanquish, rout, discomfit; overcome, overthrow, crush, thrash, trounce, whip, drub, floor; best, worst, outwit, outmaneuver.3. hit, strike, smite, slap, punch, Sl. sock, smack, cuff; beat, Sl. belt, pommel, pelt, Sl. let [s.o.] have it.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.