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extermination

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ex·ter·mi·nate  (k-stûrm-nt)
tr.v. ex·ter·mi·nat·ed, ex·ter·mi·nat·ing, ex·ter·mi·nates
To get rid of by destroying completely; extirpate. See Synonyms at abolish.
[Latin exterminre, extermint-, to drive out : ex-, ex- + terminre, to mark boundaries (from terminus, boundary marker).]
ex·termi·nation n.
ex·termi·native, ex·termi·na·tory (-n-tôr, -tr) adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.exterminationextermination - complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"
extinction
annihilation, disintegration - total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"
2.extermination - the act of exterminating
liquidation
destruction, devastation - the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
extermination
noun destruction, murder, massacre, slaughter, killing, wiping out, genocide, elimination, ethnic cleansing (euphemistic), mass murder, annihilation, eradication, extirpation the extermination of thousands of innocent people
Quotations
"We seem to be in the midst of an era of delirious ferocity, with half of mankind hell bent upon exterminating the other half" [H.L. Mencken]
Translations
extermination [eksˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən] N [of people] → exterminio m; [of pests] → exterminación f
extermination [ɪkˌstɜːrmɪˈneɪʃən] n → extermination f
extermination
n → Ausrottung f, → Vernichtung f; (of disease, beliefs, ideas) → Ausrottung f
extermination [ɪksˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃ/ən] n → sterminio
extermination [ɪksˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃ/ən] n → sterminio


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Yet they never carry their expeditions to a point, as one might readily believe it was in their power to do, where the extermination of the race of therns is threatened.
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Here, in the strip of forest, we might have built tree-shelters and settled down; but the Fire People were performing their work of extermination thoroughly.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
Though so short a period ago --not a good life-time --the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the Leviathan.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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