About The Word Exterminate
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Exterminate
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What's The Definition Of Exterminate?
[v] destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
[v] kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" Synonyms | Synonyms for Exterminate: eradicate | extirpate | kill off | uproot Related Terms | Find terms related to Exterminate: abate | abolish | annihilate | bereave of life | blot out | bump off | butcher | carry away | carry off | cast off | chloroform | cut down | cut off | cut out | deprive of life | deracinate | destroy | dispatch | dispel | dispose of | do away with | do for | do to death | eliminate | end | eradicate | execute | extinguish | extirpate | finish | finish off | fling off | get rid of | immolate | kill | launch into eternity | liquidate | lynch | make away with | martyr | martyrize | massacre | murder | obliterate | poison | purge | put away | put down | put to death | put to sleep | remove | remove from life | root out | root up | rub out | sacrifice | shake off | shoo | slaughter | slay | stamp out | starve | sweep away | take life | take off | terminate | throw away | throw off | uproot | waste | weed out | wipe out See Also | destroy | destruct | kill Exterminate In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*ter"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Exterminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exterminating}.] [L.
exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive
out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See {Term}.]
1. To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of
communion. --Barrow.
2. 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 explode and exterminate rank atheism. --Bentley.
3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
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