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/ɪkstˈərmənˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Exterminate v. t. (past & past part. exterminated; pres. part. exterminating)

To drive out or away; to expel. "They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion."

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. "To explode and exterminate rank atheism."

(Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. (R.)

adjective

exterminated adj. Destroyed completely.

Synonyms: annihilated, wiped out(predicate).

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Etymology of 'Exterminated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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