The meaning of Exterminate

Exterminate – definition

verb
Destroy completely.
Usage examples:
After exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings
Synonims:
Kill Put to death Do to death Do away with Put an end to Finish off Take the life of End the life of Get rid of Dispatch Slaughter Butcher Massacre Wipe out Mow down Shoot down Cut down Put t

verb
To kill all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type
Usage examples:
International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of whales.

Exterminate translation into English

Exterminate: translate from English into Chinese

殄, 剿灭, 扑灭, 毁灭, 灭, 殪, 歼, 剪, 剪除, 根绝

Exterminate: translate from English into Dutch

Uitroeien, Verdelgen

Exterminate: translate from English into French

Exterminer, Anéantir

Exterminate: translate from English into German

Vernichten, Ausrotten, Vertilgen

Exterminate: translate from English into Hindi

विनाश, विनाश करना, उखाड़ना, निर्मूल करना, मिटा देना, नष्ट करना, मटियामेट करना, तहस-नहस करना

Exterminate: translate from English into Italian

Sterminare, Distruggere

Exterminate: translate from English into Korean

근절하다, 절멸하다

Exterminate: translate from English into Russian

Истребить, Истреблять, Уничтожать, Искоренять, Морить

Exterminate: translate from English into Spanish

Exterminar, Extinguir, Hacer una exterminación

Word origin

late Middle English (in the sense ‘drive out’): from Latin exterminat- ‘driven out’, from the verb exterminare, from ex- ‘out’ + terminus ‘boundary’. The sense ‘destroy’ (mid 16th century) co

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Exterminate – similar words

exterminating

verb
Destroy completely.
Usage examples:
After exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings

verb
Present participle of exterminate
Usage examples:
Once cockroaches get into a building, it's very difficult to exterminate them., millions of jewish …

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exterminates

verb
Destroy completely.
Usage examples:
After exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings

verb
To kill all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type
Usage examples:
International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of whales.

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exterminated

verb
Destroy completely.
Usage examples:
After exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings

verb
Past simple and past participle of exterminate
Usage examples:
Once cockroaches get into a building, it's very difficult to exterminate them., millions of jewish …

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Exterminate synonims

butcher

ˈbʊtʃ.ər

noun
A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
Usage examples:
Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

verb
Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
Usage examples:
A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

adjective
Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.
Usage examples:
A butch woman in a baseball cap

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dispatch

verb
Send off to a destination or for a purpose.
Usage examples:
He dispatched messages back to base

noun
The sending of someone or something to a destination or for a purpose.
Usage examples:
A resolution authorizing the dispatch of a peacekeeping force

verb
To send someone or something to a place for a particular purpose
Usage examples:
Within seconds the university police can identify the exact origin of the alarm and dispatch office…

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kill

kɪl

verb
Cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing).
Usage examples:
Her father was killed in a car crash

noun
An act of killing, especially of one animal by another.
Usage examples:
A lion has made a kill

noun
(in place names, especially in new york, new jersey, and pennsylvania) a stream, creek, or tributary.
Usage examples:
Kill van kull

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massacre

noun
An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many people.
Usage examples:
The attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre

verb
Deliberately and brutally kill (many people).
Usage examples:
Thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers

noun
The killing of a large number of people, esp. people who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves
Usage examples:
Guerrilla troops are thought to have massacred the entire village.

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slaughter

verb
Kill (animals) for food.
Usage examples:
At present the abattoir is slaughtering animals for the domestic market

noun
The killing of animals for food.
Usage examples:
Thousands of calves were exported to the continent for slaughter

noun
The killing of animals for their meat, or the killing of large numbers of animals in a cruel manner
Usage examples:
We must find ways of reducing the slaughter on the highways (= deaths of many people in car acciden…

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