death to
Eliminate this thing
Death to is a phrase expressing a wish for the destruction or elimination of something, ranging from literal calls for violence to casual hyperbole.
In political contexts, Death to the tyrant! may be a genuine threat or revolutionary slogan.
More often in everyday speech, it's playful exaggeration: Death to Mondays, Death to reply-all emails.
The phrase signals strong opposition without serious intent to harm.
- abolishOfficially end a practice
- eradicateDestroy completely, utterly
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
obliteration · overthrow · termination · resistance · downfall · condemn · boycott · nullify · down with · no more · denounce · vanquish · emancipation · sovereignty · banish · revolution · liberation · rebellion