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单词 exterminable
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exterminableadj.

Etymology: < Latin exterminābilis, < extermināre : see exterminate v. and -able suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: exˈterminable.
rare.
a. That may be exterminated.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] > slaughterable
exterminable1667
slaughterable1911
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) i. xxvii. 57 No Essence that is exterminable can be the Essence of God.
b. Used by Shelley for ‘illimitable’.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [adjective] > that cannot be circumscribed
incomprehensiblea1340
interminablec1374
indeterminable1486
uncompassable?1536
incircumscriptible1550
unlimitable1576
uncircumscriptible1577
immensible1579
illimitable1596
uncircumscribable1608
abyssal1609
unboundable1622
undeterminable1633
indefinible1652
unterminablea1677
exterminable1813
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 86 The exterminable spirit it contains Is nature's only God.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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