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Meaning of 'exterminate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Exterminate [ v. t.]
- To drive out or away; to expel.
- To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
- To eliminate, as unknown quantities.

Meaning of 'exterminate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . exterminate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
Example in sentence:
  • Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe
Meaning (2):
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
Example in sentence:
  • root out corruption;
  • the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted

Nearby Words:

extacy extance extancy extant extasy extatic extemporal extemporanean extemporaneous extemporarily

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