zap
verb informal
1 the monster gets zapped by a flying saucer:
annihilate, destroy, wipe out, obliterate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, kill, slaughter, exterminate, eliminate, liquidate, eradicate, extinguish, finish off, erase, root out, extirpate;
informal take out, rub out, snuff out, waste.
▷antonyms create, build, establish.
2 racing cars zapped past on the track below:
hurry, race, run, sprint, speed, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble;
informal belt, pelt, tear, hotfoot it, zip, whip, scoot, scorch, burn rubber, go like a bat out of hell;
British, informal bomb, bucket, shift, put one's foot down, go like the clappers, leg it;
Scottish, informal wheech;
North American, informal clip, boogie, hightail, barrel, lay rubber, get the lead out;
North American, vulgar slang drag/tear/haul ass;
literary fleet;
archaic post, hie;
rare drive.
▷antonyms amble, stroll.
zap Oxford Dictionary of English