Definition of exterminate in English:

exterminate

verb ɪkˈstəːmɪneɪtɛkˈstəːmɪneɪtɪkˈstərməˌneɪt

[with object]

1Destroy completely.
根除；灭绝；消灭
after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings
Example sentencesExamples
- The first Assassins were exterminated by the Mongols, a small benefit to be set against the latter's reinforcement of Asiatic despotism in Russia, Central Asia and the Near East.
- It was also part of the world-empire of Ghenghis Khan, who once exterminated the Afghan city of Bamiyan to avenge a grandson slain in battle.
- And, although Germany eventually lost the country to other foreign powers after the WW I, exterminating those they regarded as their enemies remained a part of their national strategy during war.
- Not only did these exterminate whole populations, they also destroyed native faith in their rulers, culture, and gods.
- Macias exterminated a third of his populace before being executed after a 1979 coup.
- ‘Genocide is the attempt to eliminate, limit or exterminate a religious ethnic national or racial group,’ he said.
- Apart from his desire for even more power, Sejanus was also interested in exterminating the Jews.
- Let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request; for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be massacred and to be exterminated.
- He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map.
- If we accept, that the way of justice, is to exterminate the life of a murderer, then why do we choose such a painful method of killing?
- Koplow concedes that this is the primary reason why some feel strongly about not exterminating the virus stockpiles currently held in the United States and Russia.
- If they were exterminating British prisoners of war do we seriously think that we wouldn't have done all we could to stop it?
- British poets flocked to defend a régime that destroyed 20,000 churches in Spain and tried to exterminate whole classes of society, including 6,832 priests, monks and nuns.
- ‘This level of quite horrific violence which has been perpetrated against the pygmies is part, or was part, of a campaign aimed at exterminating them,’ he said.
- It is an overwhelming fact that so many people could be totally exterminated.
- According to the leadership's orders, bandits were to be exterminated and destroyed.
- Developing foetuses cannot be defined as a ‘race’ in any meaningful sense, and a seriously planned attempt to wipe them out would swiftly exterminate the human race.
- Christian missionaries promoted their eradication, and most had been exterminated by the beginning of the 20th century.
- I would lie there and hear the soldiers cursing and shooting whichever people they had randomly decided to exterminate that night.
- It's a massacre, they exterminate people for the fun of it.
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. 1.1 Kill (a pest)
  消灭（害虫），杀（虫）
  they use poison to exterminate moles
  他们用毒药消灭鼹鼠。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It took five decades of trapping, bounties, and posse hunts to exterminate the wolf here.
  Good humans feel no compunction about exterminating inhuman creatures that prey upon the innocent.
  When Tasmanian environmentalists became aware of this fox problem around March of 2002, they begged the government to exterminate the foxes quickly while it was still possible.
  Popper may have exterminated some beneficial insects together with harmful ones.
  In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a city official in charge of a campaign to exterminate rats said that public support for the program was adversely affected by the popularity of Mickey Mouse among children.
  At the same time the government has ordered a campaign to exterminate rats.
  Attempts have been made before to exterminate the birds, but these efforts failed mainly because of a lack of funds.
  Mr Brennan also confirmed that Rentokil had been in the area last week to begin exterminating the rodents.
  All exterminated rats are taken away and disposed of in the proper manner.
  A new act recently passed for hunting and game protection states that hunters are free to exterminate any carnivores they encounter.
  So perhaps the best way to exterminate rats would be to launch an intensive breeding programme.
  ‘We had to close the school for six days in October to exterminate rats from the classrooms and the children are being taught in damp and overcrowded rooms,’ said Mr O'Connor.
  It may be that the determination with which I exterminate any flies that enter my house is causing famine in the spider population.
  Scottish Natural Heritage yesterday released a series of pictures of hedgehogs eating birds' eggs to underline their case for exterminating the prickly creatures on North Uist.
  But a federal campaign to exterminate prairie dogs in 1950s and '60s killed nearly all of the ferrets' prey.
  Antibiotics would not be the weapon of choice against a bubonic plague attack, for instance, which is best thwarted by public-health measures like quarantining, tracking those infected and exterminating rodents.
  After wolves were exterminated within the park boundaries, Yellowstone filled with fat, lazy elk that hung out by streams and ate the aspen and willow seedlings down to their nubs.
  Dr Wagner claimed that simply exterminating the street dogs was not enough because areas that are cleared of dogs quickly become repopulated.
  First seen by Portuguese sailors in about 1507, the birds were exterminated by man and his introduced animals.
  Like it or not there is no truly humane way to exterminate a fox, one way or another there is distress.

Derivatives

exterminator

noun ɛkˈstəːmɪneɪtəɪkˈstəːmɪneɪtəɪkˈstərməˌneɪdər

1North American A person whose job is to eradicate pests from a building or area; a pest controller.
if your house has scorpions, call a professional exterminator
Example sentencesExamples
- The next hit reality show will be about out-of-work exterminators.
- And yet she holds no grudge against exterminators.
- An exterminator slaughtered the bird with a pellet gun as it tried to hide in a corner.
- he became an exterminator of pumas, tracking them down in dark caverns
2A person or thing that destroys something completely.

exterminatory

adjective ɪkˈstəːmɪnət(ə)riɛkˈstəːmɪnət(ə)riɪkˈstərmənəˌtɔri

But though Hitler called himself a socialist, and was widely accepted as one, inside and outside Germany, his socialist sources are less well known, though they reached as far as Soviet exterminatory techniques.
Example sentencesExamples
- At the centre of National Socialism was a regime of murderous racial annihilation - its impact is to be found in the appalling realization of these exterminatory ambitions.
- Longerich is wrong in suggesting that the Nazis' exterminatory policy of Euthanasia from the winter of 1939-40 was some kind of ‘rehearsal’ for the Nazi Final Solution of the Jewish Question.
- Since 1945, since the Holocaust and the Nazis' exterminatory warfare, German non-Jewish authorship has had to relegitimize, refound itself with every single text.

Origin

Late 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.

This is from Latin ‘drive out, banish’, from ex- ‘out’ and terminus ‘boundary’. This was the sense used when the word entered English. The sense ‘destroy’ (mid 16th century) comes from the Latin of the Vulgate Bible.

Rhymes

germinate, terminate, verminate

Definition of exterminate in US English:

exterminate

verbɪkˈstərməˌneɪtikˈstərməˌnāt

[with object]

1Destroy completely.
根除；灭绝；消灭
after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings
Example sentencesExamples
- It was also part of the world-empire of Ghenghis Khan, who once exterminated the Afghan city of Bamiyan to avenge a grandson slain in battle.
- Macias exterminated a third of his populace before being executed after a 1979 coup.
- Developing foetuses cannot be defined as a ‘race’ in any meaningful sense, and a seriously planned attempt to wipe them out would swiftly exterminate the human race.
- British poets flocked to defend a régime that destroyed 20,000 churches in Spain and tried to exterminate whole classes of society, including 6,832 priests, monks and nuns.
- If they were exterminating British prisoners of war do we seriously think that we wouldn't have done all we could to stop it?
- Let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request; for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be massacred and to be exterminated.
- The first Assassins were exterminated by the Mongols, a small benefit to be set against the latter's reinforcement of Asiatic despotism in Russia, Central Asia and the Near East.
- Apart from his desire for even more power, Sejanus was also interested in exterminating the Jews.
- Koplow concedes that this is the primary reason why some feel strongly about not exterminating the virus stockpiles currently held in the United States and Russia.
- Not only did these exterminate whole populations, they also destroyed native faith in their rulers, culture, and gods.
- ‘This level of quite horrific violence which has been perpetrated against the pygmies is part, or was part, of a campaign aimed at exterminating them,’ he said.
- He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map.
- Christian missionaries promoted their eradication, and most had been exterminated by the beginning of the 20th century.
- According to the leadership's orders, bandits were to be exterminated and destroyed.
- And, although Germany eventually lost the country to other foreign powers after the WW I, exterminating those they regarded as their enemies remained a part of their national strategy during war.
- ‘Genocide is the attempt to eliminate, limit or exterminate a religious ethnic national or racial group,’ he said.
- If we accept, that the way of justice, is to exterminate the life of a murderer, then why do we choose such a painful method of killing?
- I would lie there and hear the soldiers cursing and shooting whichever people they had randomly decided to exterminate that night.
- It is an overwhelming fact that so many people could be totally exterminated.
- It's a massacre, they exterminate people for the fun of it.
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
1. 1.1 Kill (a pest)
  消灭（害虫），杀（虫）
  they use poison to exterminate moles
  他们用毒药消灭鼹鼠。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But a federal campaign to exterminate prairie dogs in 1950s and '60s killed nearly all of the ferrets' prey.
  ‘We had to close the school for six days in October to exterminate rats from the classrooms and the children are being taught in damp and overcrowded rooms,’ said Mr O'Connor.
  Like it or not there is no truly humane way to exterminate a fox, one way or another there is distress.
  Dr Wagner claimed that simply exterminating the street dogs was not enough because areas that are cleared of dogs quickly become repopulated.
  In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a city official in charge of a campaign to exterminate rats said that public support for the program was adversely affected by the popularity of Mickey Mouse among children.
  When Tasmanian environmentalists became aware of this fox problem around March of 2002, they begged the government to exterminate the foxes quickly while it was still possible.
  It took five decades of trapping, bounties, and posse hunts to exterminate the wolf here.
  Popper may have exterminated some beneficial insects together with harmful ones.
  First seen by Portuguese sailors in about 1507, the birds were exterminated by man and his introduced animals.
  It may be that the determination with which I exterminate any flies that enter my house is causing famine in the spider population.
  Mr Brennan also confirmed that Rentokil had been in the area last week to begin exterminating the rodents.
  Good humans feel no compunction about exterminating inhuman creatures that prey upon the innocent.
  Scottish Natural Heritage yesterday released a series of pictures of hedgehogs eating birds' eggs to underline their case for exterminating the prickly creatures on North Uist.
  Antibiotics would not be the weapon of choice against a bubonic plague attack, for instance, which is best thwarted by public-health measures like quarantining, tracking those infected and exterminating rodents.
  At the same time the government has ordered a campaign to exterminate rats.
  So perhaps the best way to exterminate rats would be to launch an intensive breeding programme.
  A new act recently passed for hunting and game protection states that hunters are free to exterminate any carnivores they encounter.
  All exterminated rats are taken away and disposed of in the proper manner.
  After wolves were exterminated within the park boundaries, Yellowstone filled with fat, lazy elk that hung out by streams and ate the aspen and willow seedlings down to their nubs.
  Attempts have been made before to exterminate the birds, but these efforts failed mainly because of a lack of funds.

Origin

Late 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.

单词	exterminate
释义	Definition of exterminate in English: exterminate verb ɪkˈstəːmɪneɪtɛkˈstəːmɪneɪtɪkˈstərməˌneɪt [with object] 1Destroy completely. 根除；灭绝；消灭 after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings Example sentencesExamples The first Assassins were exterminated by the Mongols, a small benefit to be set against the latter's reinforcement of Asiatic despotism in Russia, Central Asia and the Near East. It was also part of the world-empire of Ghenghis Khan, who once exterminated the Afghan city of Bamiyan to avenge a grandson slain in battle. And, although Germany eventually lost the country to other foreign powers after the WW I, exterminating those they regarded as their enemies remained a part of their national strategy during war. Not only did these exterminate whole populations, they also destroyed native faith in their rulers, culture, and gods. Macias exterminated a third of his populace before being executed after a 1979 coup. ‘Genocide is the attempt to eliminate, limit or exterminate a religious ethnic national or racial group,’ he said. Apart from his desire for even more power, Sejanus was also interested in exterminating the Jews. Let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request; for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be massacred and to be exterminated. He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map. If we accept, that the way of justice, is to exterminate the life of a murderer, then why do we choose such a painful method of killing? Koplow concedes that this is the primary reason why some feel strongly about not exterminating the virus stockpiles currently held in the United States and Russia. If they were exterminating British prisoners of war do we seriously think that we wouldn't have done all we could to stop it? British poets flocked to defend a régime that destroyed 20,000 churches in Spain and tried to exterminate whole classes of society, including 6,832 priests, monks and nuns. ‘This level of quite horrific violence which has been perpetrated against the pygmies is part, or was part, of a campaign aimed at exterminating them,’ he said. It is an overwhelming fact that so many people could be totally exterminated. According to the leadership's orders, bandits were to be exterminated and destroyed. Developing foetuses cannot be defined as a ‘race’ in any meaningful sense, and a seriously planned attempt to wipe them out would swiftly exterminate the human race. Christian missionaries promoted their eradication, and most had been exterminated by the beginning of the 20th century. I would lie there and hear the soldiers cursing and shooting whichever people they had randomly decided to exterminate that night. It's a massacre, they exterminate people for the fun of it. 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 1.1 Kill (a pest) 消灭（害虫），杀（虫） they use poison to exterminate moles 他们用毒药消灭鼹鼠。 Example sentencesExamples It took five decades of trapping, bounties, and posse hunts to exterminate the wolf here. Good humans feel no compunction about exterminating inhuman creatures that prey upon the innocent. When Tasmanian environmentalists became aware of this fox problem around March of 2002, they begged the government to exterminate the foxes quickly while it was still possible. Popper may have exterminated some beneficial insects together with harmful ones. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a city official in charge of a campaign to exterminate rats said that public support for the program was adversely affected by the popularity of Mickey Mouse among children. At the same time the government has ordered a campaign to exterminate rats. Attempts have been made before to exterminate the birds, but these efforts failed mainly because of a lack of funds. Mr Brennan also confirmed that Rentokil had been in the area last week to begin exterminating the rodents. All exterminated rats are taken away and disposed of in the proper manner. A new act recently passed for hunting and game protection states that hunters are free to exterminate any carnivores they encounter. So perhaps the best way to exterminate rats would be to launch an intensive breeding programme. ‘We had to close the school for six days in October to exterminate rats from the classrooms and the children are being taught in damp and overcrowded rooms,’ said Mr O'Connor. It may be that the determination with which I exterminate any flies that enter my house is causing famine in the spider population. Scottish Natural Heritage yesterday released a series of pictures of hedgehogs eating birds' eggs to underline their case for exterminating the prickly creatures on North Uist. But a federal campaign to exterminate prairie dogs in 1950s and '60s killed nearly all of the ferrets' prey. Antibiotics would not be the weapon of choice against a bubonic plague attack, for instance, which is best thwarted by public-health measures like quarantining, tracking those infected and exterminating rodents. After wolves were exterminated within the park boundaries, Yellowstone filled with fat, lazy elk that hung out by streams and ate the aspen and willow seedlings down to their nubs. Dr Wagner claimed that simply exterminating the street dogs was not enough because areas that are cleared of dogs quickly become repopulated. First seen by Portuguese sailors in about 1507, the birds were exterminated by man and his introduced animals. Like it or not there is no truly humane way to exterminate a fox, one way or another there is distress. Derivatives exterminator noun ɛkˈstəːmɪneɪtəɪkˈstəːmɪneɪtəɪkˈstərməˌneɪdər 1North American A person whose job is to eradicate pests from a building or area; a pest controller. if your house has scorpions, call a professional exterminator Example sentencesExamples The next hit reality show will be about out-of-work exterminators. And yet she holds no grudge against exterminators. An exterminator slaughtered the bird with a pellet gun as it tried to hide in a corner. he became an exterminator of pumas, tracking them down in dark caverns 2A person or thing that destroys something completely. exterminatory adjective ɪkˈstəːmɪnət(ə)riɛkˈstəːmɪnət(ə)riɪkˈstərmənəˌtɔri But though Hitler called himself a socialist, and was widely accepted as one, inside and outside Germany, his socialist sources are less well known, though they reached as far as Soviet exterminatory techniques. Example sentencesExamples At the centre of National Socialism was a regime of murderous racial annihilation - its impact is to be found in the appalling realization of these exterminatory ambitions. Longerich is wrong in suggesting that the Nazis' exterminatory policy of Euthanasia from the winter of 1939-40 was some kind of ‘rehearsal’ for the Nazi Final Solution of the Jewish Question. Since 1945, since the Holocaust and the Nazis' exterminatory warfare, German non-Jewish authorship has had to relegitimize, refound itself with every single text. Origin Late 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. This is from Latin ‘drive out, banish’, from ex- ‘out’ and terminus ‘boundary’. This was the sense used when the word entered English. The sense ‘destroy’ (mid 16th century) comes from the Latin of the Vulgate Bible. Rhymes germinate, terminate, verminate Definition of exterminate in US English: exterminate verbɪkˈstərməˌneɪtikˈstərməˌnāt [with object] 1Destroy completely. 根除；灭绝；消灭 after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings Example sentencesExamples It was also part of the world-empire of Ghenghis Khan, who once exterminated the Afghan city of Bamiyan to avenge a grandson slain in battle. Macias exterminated a third of his populace before being executed after a 1979 coup. Developing foetuses cannot be defined as a ‘race’ in any meaningful sense, and a seriously planned attempt to wipe them out would swiftly exterminate the human race. British poets flocked to defend a régime that destroyed 20,000 churches in Spain and tried to exterminate whole classes of society, including 6,832 priests, monks and nuns. If they were exterminating British prisoners of war do we seriously think that we wouldn't have done all we could to stop it? Let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request; for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be massacred and to be exterminated. The first Assassins were exterminated by the Mongols, a small benefit to be set against the latter's reinforcement of Asiatic despotism in Russia, Central Asia and the Near East. Apart from his desire for even more power, Sejanus was also interested in exterminating the Jews. Koplow concedes that this is the primary reason why some feel strongly about not exterminating the virus stockpiles currently held in the United States and Russia. Not only did these exterminate whole populations, they also destroyed native faith in their rulers, culture, and gods. ‘This level of quite horrific violence which has been perpetrated against the pygmies is part, or was part, of a campaign aimed at exterminating them,’ he said. He exterminates his enemies and wipes whole tribes off the map. Christian missionaries promoted their eradication, and most had been exterminated by the beginning of the 20th century. According to the leadership's orders, bandits were to be exterminated and destroyed. And, although Germany eventually lost the country to other foreign powers after the WW I, exterminating those they regarded as their enemies remained a part of their national strategy during war. ‘Genocide is the attempt to eliminate, limit or exterminate a religious ethnic national or racial group,’ he said. If we accept, that the way of justice, is to exterminate the life of a murderer, then why do we choose such a painful method of killing? I would lie there and hear the soldiers cursing and shooting whichever people they had randomly decided to exterminate that night. It is an overwhelming fact that so many people could be totally exterminated. It's a massacre, they exterminate people for the fun of it. 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 1.1 Kill (a pest) 消灭（害虫），杀（虫） they use poison to exterminate moles 他们用毒药消灭鼹鼠。 Example sentencesExamples But a federal campaign to exterminate prairie dogs in 1950s and '60s killed nearly all of the ferrets' prey. ‘We had to close the school for six days in October to exterminate rats from the classrooms and the children are being taught in damp and overcrowded rooms,’ said Mr O'Connor. Like it or not there is no truly humane way to exterminate a fox, one way or another there is distress. Dr Wagner claimed that simply exterminating the street dogs was not enough because areas that are cleared of dogs quickly become repopulated. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a city official in charge of a campaign to exterminate rats said that public support for the program was adversely affected by the popularity of Mickey Mouse among children. When Tasmanian environmentalists became aware of this fox problem around March of 2002, they begged the government to exterminate the foxes quickly while it was still possible. It took five decades of trapping, bounties, and posse hunts to exterminate the wolf here. Popper may have exterminated some beneficial insects together with harmful ones. First seen by Portuguese sailors in about 1507, the birds were exterminated by man and his introduced animals. It may be that the determination with which I exterminate any flies that enter my house is causing famine in the spider population. Mr Brennan also confirmed that Rentokil had been in the area last week to begin exterminating the rodents. Good humans feel no compunction about exterminating inhuman creatures that prey upon the innocent. Scottish Natural Heritage yesterday released a series of pictures of hedgehogs eating birds' eggs to underline their case for exterminating the prickly creatures on North Uist. Antibiotics would not be the weapon of choice against a bubonic plague attack, for instance, which is best thwarted by public-health measures like quarantining, tracking those infected and exterminating rodents. At the same time the government has ordered a campaign to exterminate rats. So perhaps the best way to exterminate rats would be to launch an intensive breeding programme. A new act recently passed for hunting and game protection states that hunters are free to exterminate any carnivores they encounter. All exterminated rats are taken away and disposed of in the proper manner. After wolves were exterminated within the park boundaries, Yellowstone filled with fat, lazy elk that hung out by streams and ate the aspen and willow seedlings down to their nubs. Attempts have been made before to exterminate the birds, but these efforts failed mainly because of a lack of funds. Origin Late 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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