| 单词 | exterminate |
| 释义 | ex·ter·mi·nate 1. obsolete 2. < exterminating rats > : put an end to : root out : eradicate, extirpate < exterminating every error > : put out of existence : utterly destroy : annihilate < the cataclysm exterminated all life > Synonyms: < using every feeble attempt at retaliation as an excuse to exterminate whole tribes — R.A.Billington > < following the attempt of the people to exterminate feudalism — American Guide Series: New Jersey > extirpate usually applies to the extinction of a race, family, species, or growth, often by the destruction or removal of the means by which a thing is propagated < the gray wolf and the black bear have been extirpated — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < the trailing arbutus … has been almost extirpated — American Guide Series: Delaware > < the ancient Athenians had been extirpated by repeated wars and massacres — Robert Graves > < another set of measures are intended to get closer to the roots of the evil and to extirpate them — Frank Gorrell > eradicate implies the driving out or elimination of something that has taken root or has established itself < federal and municipal housing groups are cooperating to eradicate slums — American Guide Series: New York City > < if you eradicate a fault, you leave room for a worse one to take root and flourish — L.P.Smith > uproot suggests a forcible removal as by tearing up by the roots, not often suggesting elimination < a tribe uprooted by war and famine and forced to settle in new territory > < nor was it going to be easy to uproot deep-seated tendencies toward corruption — Collier's Year Book > deracinate implies an uprooting or, more commonly, a separation from a rootstock < he is not the deracinated and rootless author he has sometimes been thought to be — R.B.West > < although the author is himself a Negro, his book is so deracinated, without any of the lively qualities of the imagination peculiar to his people — Commentary > wipe (out) is often interchangeable with exterminate but often applies to a canceling or obliteration as by payment or retaliation or by exhaustion of supplies < discover which species still survive and which have been wiped out — Manchester Guardian Weekly > < a nerve gas that could wipe out the populations of enemy cities — New York Times > < wipe out corruption > < wipe out a debt > < the depression wiped out his savings > |
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