英语词汇“extermination”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

When an entire group of living things is killed, that's extermination. If ants have taken over your entire kitchen, marching across the counter and up the sides of the cabinets, you might have to resort to extermination.

If you smack just one mosquito, it's not extermination — a whole group must be destroyed in order to call it extermination. Spraying pesticides on your lawn to eradicate every dandelion is extermination, but if you do that you might be contributing to the inadvertent extermination of honey bees too. This destructive noun comes from the Latin exterminare, "drive out, expel, or destroy."

WORD FAMILY

extermination: exterminations+/exterminable: inexterminable/exterminate: exterminable, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, extermination, exterminator/exterminator: exterminators

USAGE EXAMPLES

“Never again!” explains why Germany, remembering the deadly fate of its Jews trying to escape extermination, opened its borders last summer.

The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016)

Contemplating the extermination of Aleppo and its people, I was reminded of a sentence that I read this summer.

Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016)

Hanning’s trial was swiftly wrapped up in four months, and he was sentenced to five years in prison for “facilitating slaughter” at the extermination camp.

The Guardian(Dec 15, 2016)

1n the act of exterminating

Syn|Hyper

liquidation

destruction, devastation

the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

2n complete annihilation

Syn|Hyper

extinction

annihilation, disintegration

total destruction

单词	extermination
释义	extermination (once / 3022 pages) n When an entire group of living things is killed, that's extermination. If ants have taken over your entire kitchen, marching across the counter and up the sides of the cabinets, you might have to resort to extermination. If you smack just one mosquito, it's not extermination — a whole group must be destroyed in order to call it extermination. Spraying pesticides on your lawn to eradicate every dandelion is extermination, but if you do that you might be contributing to the inadvertent extermination of honey bees too. This destructive noun comes from the Latin exterminare, "drive out, expel, or destroy." WORD FAMILY extermination: exterminations+/exterminable: inexterminable/exterminate: exterminable, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, extermination, exterminator/exterminator: exterminators USAGE EXAMPLES “Never again!” explains why Germany, remembering the deadly fate of its Jews trying to escape extermination, opened its borders last summer. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) Contemplating the extermination of Aleppo and its people, I was reminded of a sentence that I read this summer. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) Hanning’s trial was swiftly wrapped up in four months, and he was sentenced to five years in prison for “facilitating slaughter” at the extermination camp. The Guardian(Dec 15, 2016) 1n the act of exterminating Syn\|Hyper liquidation destruction, devastation the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists 2n complete annihilation Syn\|Hyper extinction annihilation, disintegration total destruction
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