Exterminate
[ɪk'stɜːmɪneɪt;ek-] or [ɪk'stɝmə'net]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; 'Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe'.
編輯:露西尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To drive out or away; to expel.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities.
編輯:蒂姆
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Extirpate, eradicate, uproot, annihilate, destroy, abolish, root out, put an end to.[2]. (Math.) Eliminate.
汉密尔顿校對
同義詞及反義詞：
[See EXTERMINATION]
德威特編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to destroy utterly: to put an end to: to root out.—adj. Exter′minable that can be exterminated: used in the sense of 'illimitable' by Shelley.—n. Exterminā′tion complete destruction or extirpation.—adjs. Exter′minātive Exter′minātory serving or tending to exterminate.—n. Exter′minātor.—v.t. Exter′mine (Shak.) to exterminate.
黛朵錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Why, Sabor, single handed, could exterminate a thousand of you. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- For an offense done to the family honor, the sons of Jacob exterminated all Shechem once. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The question to be debated was, whether the _Yahoos_ should be exterminated from the face of the earth? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- In which thirteen African Lions and twenty-two Barbarian Prisoners will war with each other until all are exterminated. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Soon the slaves would have outnumbered the masters, and, not being in sympathy with them, would have risen in their might and exterminated them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I understand your needs and I know the posts must be exterminated and the bridge covered while you do your work. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But, the Evremonde people are to be exterminated, and the wife and child must follow the husband and father. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- About fifteen hundred years before Christ, this camp-ground of ours by the Waters of Merom was the scene of one of Joshua's exterminating battles. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In Australia the imported hive-bee is rapidly exterminating the small, stingless native bee. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
整理:梅纳德