单词 | exterminate |
释义 | exterminate/ɪkˈstəːmɪneɪt / /ɛkˈstəːmɪneɪt/verb [with object] 1Destroy completely: after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings...
Synonyms 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 to the sword, send to the gas chambers, ethnically cleanse, destroy, eliminate, eradicate, annihilate, extirpate; murder, assassinate, execute informal bump off, knock off, polish off, do in, top, take out, snuff out, erase, croak, stiff, zap, blow away, blow someone's brains out, give someone the works North American informal ice, off, rub out, waste, whack, smoke, scrag North American euphemistic terminate with extreme prejudice literary slay 1.1Kill (a pest): they use poison to exterminate moles...
Derivativesexterminator
exterminatory
OriginLate 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) comes from the Latin of the Vulgate.
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