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extermination

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Definition of extermination

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
    “extermination of error or vice”
    “extermination of weeds from a field”
    “Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.”
    “Caley locomotive types, especially such numerous things as McIntosh goods and tank engines, have defied extermination over a good many years now.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
    “extermination of error or vice”
    “extermination of weeds from a field”
    “Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.”
    “Caley locomotive types, especially such numerous things as McIntosh goods and tank engines, have defied extermination over a good many years now.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Elimination.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.

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