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Taijiya; Exterminate; Exterminism; Extermination (disambiguation)

exterminate         
v. a.
1.
Extirpate, eradicate, uproot, annihilate, destroy, abolish, root out, put an end to.
2.
(Math.) Eliminate.
exterminate         
[?k'st?:m?ne?t, ?k-]
¦ verb destroy completely; eradicate.
Derivatives
extermination noun
exterminator noun
exterminatory -n?t(?)ri adjective
Origin
ME (in the sense 'drive out'): from L. exterminat-, exterminare, from ex- 'out' + terminus 'boundary'.
exterminate         
(exterminates, exterminating, exterminated)
To exterminate a group of people or animals means to kill all of them.
A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats...
VERB: V n
extermination
...the extermination of hundreds of thousands of their countrymen.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n, N n

Wikipedia

Extermination

Extermination or exterminate may refer to:

  • Pest control, elimination of insects or vermin
  • Genocide, extermination—in whole or in part—of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group
  • Homicide or murder in general
  • "Exterminate!", the battle cry of the Daleks in the British television show Doctor Who
  • As a proper noun
    • Extermination (comics), a Marvel Comics crossover event featuring the X-Men
    • Extermination (video game), a 2001 PlayStation 2 game by Deep Space
    • ExtermiNation, a 2015 album by heavy metal band Raven
    • "Exterminate!" (song), a 1992 song by Snap!
Examples of use of exterminate
1. Now that could be really interesting – "exterminateexterminate" – prison overcrowding problem solved.
2. They were to exterminate every last man, woman and child.
3. Now, they wanted to exterminate us to robe our oil.
4. They are extremely resilient and very difficult to exterminate.
5. A nation–wide campaign is under way to vaccinate domestic animals and exterminate harmful insects.