Exterminate

[ɪk'stɜːmɪneɪt;ek-] or [ɪk'stɝmə'net]

Definition

(verb.) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; 'Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe'.

Checker: Lucille--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Typist: Tim

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Extirpate, eradicate, uproot, annihilate, destroy, abolish, root out, put an end to.[2]. (Math.) Eliminate.

Edited by Hamilton

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See EXTERMINATION]

Inputed by DeWitt

Definition

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.

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Editor: Maynard

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