ex·ter·mi·nate /ɪkˈstɝməˌnet/
(vt.)撲滅,消滅,根絕
Ex·ter·mi·nate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating ]
1. To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. --Barrow.
2. 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 explode and exterminate rank atheism. --Bentley.
3. Math. To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
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exterminate
v 1: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler
wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and
homosexuals of Europe" [syn: kill off]
2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges
of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: uproot,
eradicate, extirpate]