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extermination
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Extermination or exterminate may refer to: Pest control , elimination of insects or vermin Genocide , the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group Extermination (video game) , a 2001 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of exterminate; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field. 2 elimination.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "repulsion;" 1540s, "utter destruction, eradication," from Middle French extermination and directly from Latin exterminationem (nominative exterminatio ) "ejection, banishment," noun of action from past participle stem of exterminare (see exterminate ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extermination \Ex*ter`mi*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. extermination.] The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field. (Math.) Elimination. [R.]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" [syn: extinction ] the act of exterminating [syn: liquidation ]
Usage examples of extermination.
On the front page the Caudillo still howled for the Rock, and some Arab leader called vainly for the extermination of Israel.
So the extermination of the Culex fasciatus would involve the destruction of the poetry of the ancestral cult,-- surely too great a price to pay!
The legions that swept across the border were not bent on conquest but upon the extermination of the Marag race, and they quite nearly succeeded.
To stop the Day Oners instituting their programme of mass extermination, the other factions had offered to run courses of re-education for the less desirable recruits to the insurrection.
In the Cheraw district, on the Pedee, above the line where Marion commanded, the Whig and Tory warfare, of which we know but little beyond this fact, was one of utter extermination.
The War was not against savages, or aborigines of spoil lands and thus does not come into the same classification as the Australian war against the autochthonous tribes of Tasmania, when the victims were hunted down like rabbits to total extermination.
I am also leery of the Carson factor: We must avoid the extermination of any extraterrestrial life-form, from the smallest virus to some supercooled Plutonian blob, not only for its own sake but for the wealth of genetic material contained within it, material that would have evolved over eons, developing unique abilities for dealing with its problems and, by extension, our own.
The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years.
In some cases, however, the extermination of whole groups of beings, as of ammonites towards the close of the secondary period, has been wonderfully sudden.
What really worried the public-relations man was the Kill-theBees Act, now before Congress, which would make beekeeping illegal and the extermination of hymenoptera a national policy.
No California students today are taught that the Pershing expedition of 1916 against Pancho Villa - the purported locus classicus of Yankee imperialism - actually brought back some Chinese refugees and other exploited people whom American soldiers had saved from certain extermination in Mexico.
Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems to me a very rash assumption.
There were other minor extermination camps near Riga, Vilna, Minsk, Kaunas and Lwow, but they were distinguished from the main ones in that they killed by shooting rather than by gas.
The exterminations in Timor, the communal massacres in Meerut and Assam, the endless color-blind cataclysm of the earth.
July 31, 1941, when the Einsatzgruppen were already falling with gusto to their extermination tasks in Russia.