exterminate

Verb

Meaning

To drive out or away; to expel.

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 eliminate, as unknown quantities.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

eradicate uproot annihilate extirpate root out stamp out kill off end butcher slay kill remove murder destroy waste
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Antonyms

further work free create release bear
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Hypernyms

kill destroy destruct

Derivatives

exterminated exterminating

Anagrams

antiextreme

Examples

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. Thomas Love Peacock

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. David Attenborough

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. Karel Čapek

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race. Bertrand Russell

His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse. Emil Cioran

It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that. Julius Streicher

Close letter words and terms

exteriourly exterminable exterminatable exterminated extermination extermination camp