Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɛkˈstəː.mɪ.neɪt/, /ɪkˈstəː.mɪ.neɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɝ.mɪ.neɪt/, /ɛkˈstɝ.mɪ.neɪt/
Verb
exterminate (third-person singular simple present exterminates, present participle exterminating, simple past and past participle exterminated)
- (transitive) To kill all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth Codex entry:The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.
- (figuratively, transitive) To bring a definite end to; finish completely.
The public school failed to exterminate truancy.
Translations
to kill all of a population
- Bashkir: ҡырыу (qırıw)
- Bulgarian: изтребвам (bg) (iztrebvam)
- Catalan: exterminar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 滅絕／灭绝 (zh) (mièjué)
- Czech: vyhladit, vyhubit (cs)
- Danish: udrydde
- Dutch: uitroeien (nl), verdelgen (nl)
- French: exterminer (fr)
- German: ausrotten (de)
- Greek: εξολοθρεύω (el) (exolothrévo), εξοντώνω (el) (exontóno)
- Hebrew: חיסל
- Italian: sterminare (it)
- Ladino: eksterminar
- Maori: haepapa, hoepapa, whakamōtī, tipihauraro
- Persian: ریشهکن کردن (riše-kan kardan)
- Portuguese: exterminar (pt), erradicar (pt)
- Romanian: exterminare (ro) f
- Russian: истребля́ть (ru) impf (istrebljátʹ), истреби́ть (ru) pf (istrebítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: истребити, istrebiti (sh)
- Spanish: exterminar (es)
- Turkish: kökünü kurutmak
- Ukrainian: вини́щувати (vynýščuvaty), виво́дити (vyvódyty) (pests, parasites)
- Yiddish: פֿאַרטיליקן (fartilikn)
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to bring a definite end to, finish completely
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