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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exterminate \Ex*ter"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Exterminated}; p. pr & vb n. {Exterminating}.] [L.
exterminatus p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive
out or away ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See {Term}.]
1. To drive out or away to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of
communion. --Barrow.
2. 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. --Bentley.
3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exterminated
adj : destroyed completely [syn: {annihilated}, {wiped out(p)}]
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