Extermination
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field. Elimination.
Example sentence: For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states.
Liquidation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process of converting into cash (or into an asset with high liquidity).The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
Example sentence: There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.