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/ɪkstˈərmənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Exterminate v. t. (past & past part. exterminated; pres. part. exterminating)

To drive out or away; to expel. "They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion."

To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. "To explode and exterminate rank atheism."

(Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. (R.)

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"Exterminate" Quotes from Famous Books

... coquin de sort!" cried the president, but the delegates protested. Excourbanies, becoming suddenly very sour, demanded if he had sworn to exterminate them. ...

— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet

... Ossipon? The source of all evil! They are our sinister masters—the weak, the flabby, the silly, the cowardly, the faint of heart, and the slavish of mind. They have power. They are the multitude. Theirs is the kingdom of the earth. Exterminate, exterminate! That is the only way of progress. It is! Follow me, Ossipon. First the great multitude of the weak must go, then the only relatively strong. You see? First the blind, then the deaf and the dumb, then the halt and the lame—and so on. Every ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... world from the beginning, that God casts down those who seek only to injure. They who have despised God's threats and angry countenance with security and defiance have at last experienced the fulfillment of these warnings and perished thereby. King Saul thought to destroy godly David, to exterminate his root and branch and blot out his name as if he had been a rebellious, accursed man. But God effected the very opposite. Because David in his sufferings and persecution walked in the fear of God and trusted him with ...

— Epistle Sermons, Vol. III - Trinity Sunday to Advent • Martin Luther

... or unjustly he (the bishop) could not say. That would be decided by parliament. In the meantime they were ready to assist in settling the trade disputes in the city, for it was absurd for one body of the citizens to attempt to exterminate another. The citizens, however, showed no desire ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... lived in the middle of the kingdom took shelter in the nearest garrisons occupied by the Hugonots; and finding that they could repose no faith in capitulations, and expect no clemency, were determined to defend themselves to the last extremity. The sect which Charles had hoped at one blow to exterminate, had now an army of eighteen thousand men on foot, and possessed, in different parts of the kingdom, above a hundred cities, castles, or fortresses;[*] nor could that prince deem himself secure ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

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