Extermination
[ɪk'stɝmə'neʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
(n.) Elimination.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Extirpation, eradication, annihilation, destruction, extinction, abolition, excision.[2]. (Math.) Elimination.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Eradication, extirpation, abolition, destruction
ANT:Settlement, replenishment, augmentation, colonization, population, propagation,increase
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Examples
- Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems a very rash assumption. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A weed like the Russian thistle, for instance, will defy all usual means for its extermination. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The process of extermination in such cases would be rapid, whereas the production of new species must always be slow. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They were near to extermination that once and they will not venture risking it again. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Extermination. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His name had been proclaimed as a defaulter on the Stock Exchange, and his bankruptcy and commercial extermination had followed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At extermination, said madame. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- On a small island, the race for life will have been less severe, and there will have been less modification and less extermination. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Also should I devote my life to the extermination of the hideous plant men and their horrible companions, the great white apes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- We see the same process of extermination among our domesticated productions, through the selection of improved forms by man. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In the war of extermination that was ever before the great naturalist's eye in South America, what is it that favors a species' survival or determine s its extinction? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was in close contact with the sanguinary political struggles of South America, and with a war of attempted extermination against the Indian. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He opposed those physicians who believed in the spontaneity of disease, and he wished to wage a war of extermination against all injurious organisms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Extermination is good doctrine, my wife, said Defarge, rather troubled; in general, I say nothing against it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In some cases, however, the extermination of whole groups, as of ammonites, towards the close of the secondary period, has been wonderfully sudden. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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