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单词 extermination
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Definition of extermination in English:

extermination

noun ɛkˌstəːmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nɪkˌstəːmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nɪkˌstərməˈneɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • 1Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.

    the near extermination of the buffalo herds
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When the white backed vulture, as a species, faces the threat of extermination, what hope is there for other wildlife?
    • I saw our Jewish neighbors lined up on the street corner to be hauled off by railroad freight cars to extermination camps.
    • But he still feels pretty bad about having once annihilated a nest of baby squirrels back when he was still breaking into the extermination business.
    • Again the army was sent in with extermination orders.
    • Forget the quick fix and save Bradford from extermination.
    • A sufficiently strong lure would draw bands over many miles to a central location for easy en masse extermination.
    • The extermination of all foreigners was ordered.
    • For them, aggressive war across national frontiers was a more salient risk than the extermination of peoples within states.
    • I don't think England has fully recovered from the extermination of Christians by the Normans, to the present day.
    • What they do understand is ruthless extermination of opponents.
    • This inscription awakens the memory of the people whose sons and daughters were intended for total extermination.
    • The Nazis carried out mass extermination of Jews at camps like these.
    • The principal reasons of their disappearance were extermination of predators and their prey and habitat destruction.
    • Many were sent to the nearby Belzec extermination center, or to the extermination centers at Treblinka and Sobibor.
    • Sachsenhausen was primarily a camp for political opponents of the Nazis, not an extermination camp for the Jews.
    • In Whitewash, Reynolds does not defend his views about either genocide or extermination.
    • Similarly, genocide does not encompass the extermination of a group on political grounds.
    • The exhibition records the systematic extermination of six million people.
    • In 1945 Stalin, as the master of East Germany, turned extermination back on the Germans, though his revenge is less well known.
    • We asked them, both with more than 35 years of extermination experience, to verify what we videotaped.
    Synonyms
    killing, murder, assassination, putting to death, doing to death, execution, dispatch, slaughter, massacre, genocide
    taking of someone's life, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, destruction, eradication, annihilation, wiping out, extinction
    literary slaying
    1. 1.1 Complete destruction.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the final two chapters, Koplow makes his final case against the extermination of the remaining smallpox stockpiles.
      • The Exokernel architecture advocates for a total extermination of all kernel abstractions.
      • The extermination of anti-social elements does, after all, have a somewhat controversial history.
      • Only the timely arrival of some Peigans prevented the complete extermination of the camp.
      • Pacification was the CIA's reader-friendly word for its extermination of civilian opposition to the US war machine in South Vietnam.
      • For example, extermination of a big battle cruiser is such a task.
      • By Francesco's own account, his fervent belief that he was (again) witnessing the "extermination of his Casa," drove him out of his mind.
      • As a result large scale extermination of St. John's Wort has been undertaken in Australia.
      • After the attempted extermination, one of the janitors tried to light a cigarette, which ignited the solvent.

Definition of extermination in US English:

extermination

nounɪkˌstərməˈneɪʃ(ə)nikˌstərməˈnāSH(ə)n
  • 1Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.

    the near extermination of the buffalo herds
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What they do understand is ruthless extermination of opponents.
    • But he still feels pretty bad about having once annihilated a nest of baby squirrels back when he was still breaking into the extermination business.
    • The exhibition records the systematic extermination of six million people.
    • The principal reasons of their disappearance were extermination of predators and their prey and habitat destruction.
    • This inscription awakens the memory of the people whose sons and daughters were intended for total extermination.
    • Sachsenhausen was primarily a camp for political opponents of the Nazis, not an extermination camp for the Jews.
    • The Nazis carried out mass extermination of Jews at camps like these.
    • Similarly, genocide does not encompass the extermination of a group on political grounds.
    • I don't think England has fully recovered from the extermination of Christians by the Normans, to the present day.
    • Forget the quick fix and save Bradford from extermination.
    • A sufficiently strong lure would draw bands over many miles to a central location for easy en masse extermination.
    • Many were sent to the nearby Belzec extermination center, or to the extermination centers at Treblinka and Sobibor.
    • For them, aggressive war across national frontiers was a more salient risk than the extermination of peoples within states.
    • In Whitewash, Reynolds does not defend his views about either genocide or extermination.
    • The extermination of all foreigners was ordered.
    • When the white backed vulture, as a species, faces the threat of extermination, what hope is there for other wildlife?
    • Again the army was sent in with extermination orders.
    • In 1945 Stalin, as the master of East Germany, turned extermination back on the Germans, though his revenge is less well known.
    • I saw our Jewish neighbors lined up on the street corner to be hauled off by railroad freight cars to extermination camps.
    • We asked them, both with more than 35 years of extermination experience, to verify what we videotaped.
    Synonyms
    killing, murder, assassination, putting to death, doing to death, execution, dispatch, slaughter, massacre, genocide
    1. 1.1 Complete destruction.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After the attempted extermination, one of the janitors tried to light a cigarette, which ignited the solvent.
      • The extermination of anti-social elements does, after all, have a somewhat controversial history.
      • In the final two chapters, Koplow makes his final case against the extermination of the remaining smallpox stockpiles.
      • By Francesco's own account, his fervent belief that he was (again) witnessing the "extermination of his Casa," drove him out of his mind.
      • As a result large scale extermination of St. John's Wort has been undertaken in Australia.
      • Pacification was the CIA's reader-friendly word for its extermination of civilian opposition to the US war machine in South Vietnam.
      • For example, extermination of a big battle cruiser is such a task.
      • The Exokernel architecture advocates for a total extermination of all kernel abstractions.
      • Only the timely arrival of some Peigans prevented the complete extermination of the camp.
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