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单词 extermination
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exterminationn.

/ɛkˌstəːmɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English -mynacion, 1500s -minatione.
Etymology: < Latin exterminātiōn-em, noun of action < extermināre : see exterminate v.
The action of exterminating.
1. Expulsion from the bounds or limits of a country, state, or community; banishment, excommunication. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun]
flemeOE
exilec1330
flemingc1374
relegationc1425
sequestrationa1450
exulation1535
extermination1586
deportation1595
exportationa1610
displantation1614
elimination1623
discommonwealthing1647
ejection1655
self-exile1712
uprooting1775
expatriation1816
dissettlement1880
uprootedness1927
1586 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 430 The Lord Rosenberg..did..advise the Emperour of his error committed in our extermination.
a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1740) III. 542 Displanting and extermination of people.
1662 T. Blount Boscobel (new ed.) ii. 31 His Majesties sufferings and forc'd extermination.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 272 The slaughter of the Beast, or extermination of him out of Being.
2.
a. Putting an end to, total extirpation; utter destruction.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation
anientizement1429
deletiona1513
extincting1513
annihilment1526
exterminion1528
nulling1538
annihilation1541
exterminationc1550
nullity1555
annihilating1577
massacre1595
extinguishment1599
extinct1606
expunction1615
extinction1615
discreationa1628
nullificationa1631
nullifying1640
decreation1647
defacedness1668
extinguishinga1676
erasurea1794
exterminating1796
blotting out1808
naughting1913
wipeout1968
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vii. 54 To succumb hyr haistylye, in the maist extreme exterminatione.
1679 Instrument 10 Forcible pursuit against such Persons, to the utter Extermination of them.
1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 140 The almost total extermination of religion.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 160 The savage aims at the utter extermination of his enemy.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 540 The Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-pox.
1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iv. 141 One species prospers and multiplies by the extermination of another.
1867 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains (1874) 8 A new decree for the extermination of the Talmud.
b. attributive, as extermination camp n. a concentration camp for the mass murder of human beings, applied esp. to the camps set up by Nazi Germany in the war of 1939–45.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement > concentration camp > type of
death camp1849
extermination camp1945
1945 Atlantic July 55 Among the workers a threat of being sent to an extermination camp has its uses.
1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 146 We have witnessed the inhumanities of concentration and extermination camps.
1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down 10 The Jews..were sent to the extermination camps.
3. Mathematics. = elimination n. 5.
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the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > equation > simplification of
parabolism1699
extermination1753
elimination1798
rationalization1831
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.
1784 E. Waring in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 411 The extermination of all the terms.
1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 256 (note) Cubic equations..may usually be reduced to quadratics, by extermination.
4. Used as = termination n.; ending; decay.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > coming or bringing to an end > coming to an end or expiry
endc1000
ush1463
outrunning1483
extermination1490
ish1502
expirement1526
concluding1530
expiration1562
closing1598
terminating1598
cessure1607
outpassing1609
expire1612
expiring1612
expiry1807
cesser1809
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (1890) xxii. 80 The owle['s]..song termyneth in pyetous extermynacion.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 15 Siklyik lordschips ande digniteis, hes incressing, declinatione, ande exterminatione.
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