extermine

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9

Definition of extermine

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete, transitive)To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
    “VVherever ſorrovv is, relief vvould be. / If you do ſorrovv at my grief in love, / By giving love your ſorrovv and my grief / VVere both extermined.”
    “Without the instinct of self-preservation, which causes the sea-anemone to contract its tentacles, or the fish to dash into its hover, species would be extermined wholesale by involuntary suicide.”

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Etymology

From French exterminer, from Latin extermino.

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