Definitions for: Exterminate

[v] destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
[v] kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

Webster (1913) Definition: Ex*ter"mi*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating.] [L.
exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive
out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
1. To drive out or away; to expel.

They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of
communion. --Barrow.

2. 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. --Bentley.

3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]

Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, kill off, uproot

See Also: destroy, destruct, kill

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