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exterminatory, a.|ɛkˈstɜːmɪnəˌtərɪ| [f. exterminate + -ory.] Tending to extermination; characterized by attempts at extermination.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. 207 This exterminatory war. c1795― Let. to R. Burke Wks. IX. 444 Those terrible, confiscatory, and exterminatory periods. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 393 That exterminatory code which hitherto had kept them in abeyance. |