exterminateverb [ T ]
uk/ɪkˈstɜː.mɪ.neɪt/us/ɪkˈstɝː.mə.neɪt/to kill all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type:
Once cockroaches get into a building, it's very difficult to exterminate them.
Millions of Jewish people were exterminated in concentration camps in the Second World War.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- malignant
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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extermination
noun [ U ] uk/ɪkˌstɜː.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ɪkˌstɝː.məˈneɪ.ʃən/
International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of the whale (= all of them being killed).
exterminator
noun [ C ] uk/ɪkˈstɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tər/us/ɪkˈstɝː.mə.neɪ.t̬ɚ/