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2 definitions found 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]: exterminate v 1: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" [syn: {kill off}] 2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: {uproot}, {eradicate}, {extirpate}]
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