exterminated Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
    kill off; exterminate.
    • Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe
  2. verb destroy completely, as if down to the roots
    exterminate; uproot; root out; extirpate; eradicate.
    • the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption
  3. adjective satellite destroyed completely
    annihilated; wiped out.

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