Exterminating
[ɪk'stɜ:mə,neɪtɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exterminate
Editor: Louise
Examples
- 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: Louise