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]
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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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Examples
- Why, Sabor, single handed, could exterminate a thousand of you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For an offense done to the family honor, the sons of Jacob exterminated all Shechem once. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The question to be debated was, whether the _Yahoos_ should be exterminated from the face of the earth? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In which thirteen African Lions and twenty-two Barbarian Prisoners will war with each other until all are exterminated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Soon the slaves would have outnumbered the masters, and, not being in sympathy with them, would have risen in their might and exterminated them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I understand your needs and I know the posts must be exterminated and the bridge covered while you do your work. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But, the Evremonde people are to be exterminated, and the wife and child must follow the husband and father. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In Australia the imported hive-bee is rapidly exterminating the small, stingless native bee. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Editor: Maynard