Exterminated
[ɪk'stɜ:mə,neɪtid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Exterminate
Typist: Rosa
Examples
- 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.
- During my year on the Columbia River, the small-pox exterminated one small remnant of a band of Indians entirely, and reduced others materially. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In St. Helena there is reason to believe that the naturalised plants and animals have nearly or quite exterminated many native productions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Typist: Rosa