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[ ik-stur -muh -ney-ter ] SHOW IPA
/ ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪ tər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a person or thing that exterminates.
a person or business establishment specializing in the elimination of vermin, insects, etc., from a building, apartment, etc., especially by the controlled application of toxic chemicals.
Origin of exterminator From the Late Latin word exterminātor, dating back to 1605–15. See extermine, -ator
Words nearby exterminator exterior, exterior angle, exteriority, exteriorize, exterminate, exterminator , exterminatory, extermine, extern, external, external acoustic pore
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Example sentences from the Web for exterminator Ditto the kind of people who let garbage pile up undisposed of (and don't or can't call an exterminator ).
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And a rubbing alcohol/lavender oil mix works only as a short-term defense to buy time until the exterminator comes.
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An exterminator , Dill took a job in Iraq for a company contracted to do pest control on military bases.
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Despite having the nickname “the exterminator ,” DeLay did not try to exterminate wasteful spending when in power.
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Exterminator (The), Montbars, chief of a set of filibusters in the seventeenth century.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Sometimes they are enemies who must be immolated to Mars the exterminator .
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
The destroyer of enemies,” “the reducer of the disobedient,” “the exterminator of rebels,” “he whose sword is good.
Tradition | John Francis Arundell
At one of these avenues would enter the exterminator of my honor and my life.
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden Brown
Exterminator and his rider were roundly applauded upon their return to the stand.
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