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单词 exterminatory
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exterminatoryadj.

/ɛkˈstəːmɪnəˌtəri/
Etymology: < exterminate v. + -ory suffix2.
Tending to extermination; characterized by attempts at extermination.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > annihilating
extinctivea1623
annihilating1629
mundicidious1647
erasive1657
uncreating1743
annihilative1764
exterminatory1790
exterminative1884
annihilationist1922
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 207 This exterminatory war. View more context for this quotation
c1795 E. Burke Let. to R. Burke in Wks. IX. 444 Those terrible, confiscatory, and exterminatory periods.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 393 That exterminatory code which hitherto had kept them in abeyance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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